Vacation

[chris_gerrib]

With my job, if I don't plan vacations they tend not to happen. So, I'm thinking about vacations. I have six (6) un-allocated days, and I'm trying to decide if they should be used as a bunch or in small groups. If I go with all at once, my best time to go anywhere would be in the November / December time frame.

So, questions for my readers:

1) Has anybody been to Death Valley? I'm thinking of staying / flying into Vegas and making a two-day side trip to Death Valley.

2) I've never been to the Alamo (specifically) and San Antonio (in general). What's that like in November? Would it be worth a trip?

3) Anybody got any other suggestions for a vacation? I can get plenty of cold weather in Chicago, so warm would be better.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

The Alamo is near the San Antonio Riverwalk where there's nice dining and shopping (well, there was back when I was in college, so...). It's been moved there from it's original location, BTW.

It's probably best for a history buff (which I'm not).

Can't help you with Death Valley.

[threeoutside.livejournal.com]

I wasn't there in "winter" but I did visit the River Walk and the Alamo - which had a personal connection with my late husband's family, as Lt. (I think that's right) Travis was a great-great-great uncle or something. I had never been much of a history buff (that's been changing in recent years) but I found the Alamo to be surprisingly moving. The River Walk was OK but I am definitely not a shopper nor a drinker, so dinner and staring at tourists was about the sum of it for me. Oh, and I did almost have a heart attack when they fired off the cannon (literally) at sundown to scare off the 90 million starlings. When I was there (can't remember what year) the Alamo was quite a ways from the River Walk, and I had to walk, so it was a trek. I hadn't heard about their moving it.

I drove through Death Valley a year ago Christmas-ish. I didn't stray from the highway, so I don't know what there is to see or do. I like desert scenery, so I enjoyed that part of it.

P.S.: got here via Jim Hines's blog today

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Now I don't know where I got that idea that it had been moved....I recall thinking the ranger told us that. Sorry. Ignore that comment. No documentation...

[threeoutside.livejournal.com]

But it could well have been - I was there in the late 1990's I think.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says nothing about moving the building, for what that's worth.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

thanks for the tip and welcome!