OF PATRIOTS AND PASTRIES (January 4-February 14, 2025)

 

We left our son's home in Missouri and traveled to the great state of Texas. While there we stayed at the WYNDHAM Riverside Suites in San Antonio. This has become a "go to" place just after Christmas. The weather is decent and the Christmas Lights along the Riverwalk don't get turned off until the middle of January.  Our three weeks there were spent relaxing and visiting the places we had come to enjoy. Those spots would include, the Alamo, the Riverwalk, the Tower of the America's, Mi Tierra Cafe, and the Guenther Pioneer Flour Mill Restaurant.

As always, we enjoyed watching and listening to the horse drawn carriages as they paraded past our room nightly. It was a time of getting organized for our winter/spring adventures that lay ahead.

We left San Antonio and flew to Hawaii through Los Angles. The flights were long but, stepping off the plane in the Aloha State, smelling the flowers, and feeling the tropical warmth was worth it.

  

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Our times in San Antonio always seem to be a blend of the old and the new. It is a place with great history and a bright future. The resort we stay at used to be, in the early 1900s, a Salvation Army housing unit, then it was a standard hotel, and now a Wyndham Timeshare Resort. It is the perfect blend of the old and new. The rooms are small and have maintained the architectural features of the original building with the niceties of the 21st century. We love it.

The Guenther House Restaurant is in the original Guenther Home and overflows with history. It is an unassuming eatery in the old home but, it has the best pastries and signature waffles. The upstairs is a sort of Museum with the original period furnishings. We love it!

And, of course, there is the Alamo. Smack dab in the center of the busy city.  A small but important reminder of days gone by and our history as Americans. We love it.

That's pretty much the way it is with life. We are, for the most part, what our past has made us. Yet, throughout the years, we have changed. We need to be a bland of the old and the new. We need to always remember our heritage and how we have arrived at this point in life. As much as our history has shaped us, we must learn to adapt to the new day in which we live and reach forward to the days ahead.

Like the Alamo, the Guenther House, and the Wyndham Riverside Suites, we should cherish our past and live in the present. Repurposed as it were. For those of us who have lived many decades we must find a way to be relevant in our later days.

We cannot do or be what we once were but, we can certainly find an avenue to be of value in our golden years.  Be blessed and remember.... THE BEST IS YET TO COME!