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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 331497" data-attributes="member: 1196">I spent two weeks in St. Louis on business and the things I cared for were the Arch (with the museum underneath), Cahokia, and some little Italian restaraunt I can't remember the name of.  It was off of Lindburgh near the interstate that passes the airport and right across from my hotel.  It was a little hole in the wall place that was actually a converted house rather than a purpose built restaraunt.  Perhaps someone can recall the name.  I'd have to say you ought to visit San Antonio and central Texas.  San Antonio has the Alamo and the Riverwalk for starters.  The riverwalk is the river that runs through town.  It is very built up and has restaraunts, clubs, shops, hotels, and other things like that lining it.  Lots of people like it.  Its very pretty at night.  Downtown in general can be nice, but I haven't seen all of it.  There is the Hemisfare tower, which is a big tower that sticks up over the whole town and has a slowly rotating building on top.  It has an observation deck and a restaraunt in it.  There is also the institute of Texan cultures.  Its a museum about the various immigrant groups who came to Texas and how they lived when they got here.  I don't know if the buckhorn is still open, but it was a genuine old west style saloon that had a huge collection of antlers that lots of people go to see (just throwing things out, I have no idea what you want to see).   San Antonio also has Sea World, an aquatic theme park with sea animals like whales and dolphins, and Fiesta Texas, a more traditional amusement park with various rides.  Austin is an hour north of San Anonio and has a live music scene to be envied.  I'm not a good guide to it though.  THe hill country is north and northwest of San Antonio.  I grew up there in a very 'touristy' town called Fredericksburg.  All of the hill country has great scenery.  New Braunfels has Schlitterbahn, a water park.  Fredericksburg has lots of different stuff.  There is a pioneer museum devoted to the original settlers.  There is an old toy museum.  The biggest museum in town is the Admiral Nimitz State (and now Federal) Park.  It is a huge museum about Admiral Nimitz (the US Admiral who led our navy in the Pacific in WWII) and WWII in general.  Its divided into three parts.  One is the old hotel, which his grandfather ran and where a number of famous people like O. Henry the author stayed.  There is the History Walk, where they have authentic "big" stuff like original aircraft and ship parts.  The third and newest part is the George Bush (the one who was in the war) Center with more artifacts, including a Japanese mini-sub.    If you're the outdoor type, there is Enchanted Rock, which is a huge solid granite outcropping covers a square mile.  Its popular for rock climbing and camping and there is a great view from the top.  If you time things right, the county fair will be going on (4th weekend in August).  It can be interesting, especially if you've never been to one.  There will be a carnival, horse races, a stock show and the usual "crafts" type stuff (best handcrafts, cooking, pickeling, garden produce and so on).  Main street if Fredericksburg has lots of shops, especially antique shops and "artsy" type places as well as one of the last "five and dime" stores.  There are also plenty of restaraunts too.  There is an old civil war fort just outside town.  A little to the east (30 minute drive) is the Lyndon Johnson park.  Everything you could ever want to know about the former president from the 60s.  They have both his ranch and his childhood home.  Anyway, you don't mention what you're interested in so I just sorta threw a bunch of stuff from my home area out there.  If you need more info, email me.  Especially for Fredericksburg since I "know people" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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