{"id":499,"date":"2010-06-21T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:47:38","slug":"san-antonios-river-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/06\/21\/san-antonios-river-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio&#8217;s River Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4756415621\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4118\/4756415621_ed4312e135_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Miles Traveled:<\/strong> 20,017<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio is best known (at least to Tony) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealamo.org\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Alamo<\/a> (pictured above), site of a historic battle for freedom from Mexico, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">River Walk<\/a> (below), which is a planned commercial area in downtown featuring a canal lined with restaurants, bars, shops, hotels, apartments and nicely landscaped shady areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4757053012\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4757053012_686b46260b_z.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4757053676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4078\/4757053676_bc72110915_z.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4757054160\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4757054160_1e405bde7f_z.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check this out, a restaurant called &#8220;Dolores del Rio&#8221;, translated &#8220;Pains of the River&#8221;, featuring Italian food, jazz music&#8230; hmmm&#8230; and belly dancing? \u00a0 Such an odd combination we almost have to go next time we&#8217;re in town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Interesting marketing for a restaurant by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4757054670\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4135\/4757054670_3e6093aae4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Interesting marketing for a restaurant\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s really a nice relaxing place to visit for an afternoon. \u00a0We grabbed a Corona by the river while watching people stroll by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas by T. Chen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tony-chen\/4757055242\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4757055242_885e3e2836_z.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio River Walk, Texas\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next, we head to Austin where we meet up with our friend Bryan and then check out Lake Travis before heading out to the Texas Hill Country for Texas wines and some R&amp;R.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Miles Traveled: 20,017 San Antonio is best known (at least to Tony) for the Alamo (pictured above), site of a historic battle for freedom from Mexico, and the River Walk (below), which is a planned commercial area in downtown featuring a canal lined with restaurants, bars, shops, hotels, apartments and nicely landscaped shady areas. 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