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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3405881" data-attributes="member: 19675">The Alamo is in San Antonio, a city drenched in the Spanish/Mexican influence on Texas life.  Its a big city- 8th biggest in the USA, and is remeniscent of New Orleans- a river city with great cuisine.  You can't go wrong with the Tex-Mex or BBQ there. There are some nice museums, and Sea World is there.Still, San Antonio is kind of a big small town. (OK, a HUGE small town.)  Friendly people everywhere, but its really spread out.The River Walk is scenic and has nice shopping and dining opportunities.  If you're lucky and you care for that kind of thing, you can check out a San Antonio Spurs basketball game.About 90 minutes North of SA on I-35 is the state capitol, Austin.  It is one of the great music cities in the world, currently hosting the International SXSW music & film festival.  Although it will be over by the time you get to TX, there will still be a host of music to see.  Austin also has a huge arts community, including writers like Bruce Sterling and Michael Moorcock, one of the biggest beading societies in the US, and so forth.Maybe you'll be able to catch a concert?Musical styles popular in the region: Texas has a big hard blues/rock scenes.  Remember Pantera?  ZZTop? SRV?  Check out Harder Beat magazine: <a href="http://harderbeat.com/html/home.html" target="_blank">http://harderbeat.com/html/home.html</a></blockquote>