Greg and I took a impromptu road trip to San Antonio on Saturday and I'm kicking myself for not putting my phone on the charger the night before. I would have love to have gotten pics of the trail we walked at Mission San Juan near the river. We saw a beautiful crane (we have those in Houston near the bayous but it always feels special to see one), some fuzzy caterpillars and other creatures. Of course the mission itself was beautiful too, but the walk was a real highlight for me. I grew up in the country and I miss being in nature.

We also went to Mission Espada, which has a chapel that is still in use. But we mostly drove around. There was some festival going on downtown but we weren't quite up for braving a crowd of thousands, especially given my slowly healing foot injury. We didn't set out to do anything in particular anyway, so we headed back after a few hours of exploring and knocking one of Texas Monthly's top 50 cheeseburgers off of our to-do list. We had wanted to go to The Cove, a funky laundrymat/carwash/grill but the line was out the door. We settled for a place called MoMak's and while the burgers were delicious the atmosphere was very suburban. Not really our thing but Greg did leave with a delicious malt for the road. I do want to make it to The Cove sometime though.

Oh! We also stumbled upon a cool old cemetery in Columbus on the way that I'm sure Greg will want to revisit. He hadn't been there before and I had started to think he'd seen it all.

I guess there's not much more to recount but that's because the roadtrip itself is a lot of the fun. It's always good to get away!