Mr Thompson goes to Texas!
Updated: 19 September, 2005
As part of my business, my wife and I spent a week in San Antonio, Texas. at an engineering Conference organised by the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE).
These were some of the sights we saw in San Antonio, staying in a hotel only one or two blocks away from the Alamo. So on our first morning, we had to visit it, taking in the Imax film on the way.
The Alamo, San Antonio
Mr Thompson standing outside the Alamo
San Antonio at night - a truly vibrating city
It is difficult to imagine what the San Antonio river used to be like - now it is built like a canal with very slow running water. Boats carrying tourists travel along it at frequent intervals.
The San Antonio river, beside our hotel
After a few days, we hired a car and left San Antonio for Austin and Dallas, taking in the Texas hills along the way. Was this the wild west?
A statue on the side walk in Fredricksburg, Texas
It was hot, so we took refreshments!
Along the way, we stopped to admire the view.
Cactus beside a Texas highway
And then we arrived at the Buchanan dam....
Memorial plaque to James P. Buchanan after whom the dam is named
The Buchanan dam
Looking down from the dam
We travelled on to Dallas....
Dallas - X marks the spot
Just outside Dallas, you must visit South Fork, the home of JR Ewing....
South Fork ranch
A local "cowboy"?
This is just a small selection of the photographs taken during the visit.
All of the photographs on this page were taken with a Kodak DC120 digital camera