Lynne and I serendipitously (read: accidentally!) ended up on the famous San Antonio River Walk on a perfect spring-like Friday evening. We were headed to a bistro for dinner, so we were looking for a “reasonably priced” place to park in the downtown area. We parked the car and walked through a doorway to exit the lot, only to stumble onto this: Continue reading
I am reminded over and over that when one must work 9 to 5, five out of seven days a week, one must make the most of the two remaining days as best they can, come rain or shine. I am reminded of this over and over, because the vast majority of my friends and family no longer work 9 to 5. 😉 So with the first of my two days off having turned cold and rainy Continue reading
It’s perfect spring weather on our first full day in San Antonio. It is finally warm enough to open up the skylight, with nothing but a screen door between my virtual office and the cacophony of birds in the old pecan trees outside. It is 4:00pm, and I sitting at my desk, sleepily downloading excel reports to the chirping of the birdsong outside, when the “ding” of my iphone signals an incoming email. Continue reading
With my good friend and blogger buddy Lynne now retired and me pretending to be, we needed something a little more fitting with the “Austerity Plan” than the absurd going rate of $40 per night in downtown San Antonio. As the first major city along the I-35 corridor from South Texas, clearly, San Antonio has the “snowbird set” over a barrel, Continue reading