San Antonio, the long short way

Friday, July 19th

We were headed to San Antonio, for the annual Texas Bandmasters Association convention. We made reservations at the Alamo KOA, and even though some of Band Camp has started, many of the directors were going to SA, so they did not schedule anything for Friday.

Tony brought Manmoth home on Thursday and we loaded up. A lot easier for a local trip than our previous multiple-state, nearly-a-month trip.

Friday morning we loaded up the last few items and kitties and hit the road about 10am. I gave the kitties their special "sleepy treat" about an hour before we left. They loaded easily, and off we went. They promptly went to sleep!

We did not hear a peep from them until about 1.5 hours into the drive. We stopped in Italy to get an early lunch, since we knew I-35 would have lots of construction along the way. They fussed a bit but after a while they were fine and asleep again.

A lot of 35 was under construction, but traffic was moving ok and wasn't too scary. At Round Rock north of Austin we took 130, the tollway loop around the outskirts of Austin. We had taken this route before, and although expensive it's well with the price to avoid Austin traffic.

We had muted our GPS at some point, and forgot to un-mute... So while deep in conversation, we missed the exit to rejoin I-35, and ended up continuing on the new section of 130, that goes all the way to I-10! It's mostly through a rural area and not much traffic at all. It seemed to take longer, but was probably quicker since we avoided any SA rush hour traffic.

Once we joined I-10 there was a lot more traffic on the road. However, I-10 took us much closer to our KOA, without the heavy traffic and lane changes through the heart of San Antonio. We ended up arriving right about 4pm! The kitties did really great, too!

We made quick work of the setup and got settled in. Luckily there was some clouds, so we didn't suffer too much.

Kitties settle in.

We ended up deciding to order a pizza from the KOA office, and had it delivered to our site. It arrived within about 15min! We drank some of our Dortmunder beer from Cleveland, and had a nice evening.

Pizza and beer!

We headed off to bed about 10ish as we were pretty tired.

BTW, we fueled as we drove, twice during the trip. It was so nice not to have to deal with truck stop fueling!


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