by RoadRunner | Feb 6, 2017 | food & drink, history, music, San Antonio insider, shopping, Sightseeing
When you walk through Market Square on the Friday Friendship Walk you’ll find a colorful, fun and bustling commercial and civic space. You can buy an embroidered dress, pick out Talavera tiles for a kitchen back splash or buy a rough-woven Mexican blanket to use...
by RoadRunner | Jan 30, 2017 | food & drink, history, music, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
On Saturday you’ll be walking through the historic King William area. To give some historical context to your walk you can pick up a brochure for the King William walking tour (or download it here.) If you have time to linger, there are two historic houses you...
by RoadRunner | Jan 28, 2017 | fitness, food & drink, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
In the Spring of 1968 San Antonio’s HemisFair Park was the site of the official 1968 World’s Fair. From April 6 through October 6 San Antonio welcomed more than thirty nations and six million visitors as they celebrated the various people and cultures that settled in...
by RoadRunner | Jan 20, 2017 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
When we asked experienced international walker (and Texas Trail Roundup vice president) Pat Heller what the overseas walkers would want to know about she had a one word answer: beer. Our insurers won’t let us offer alcoholic beverages at the checkpoints, but...
by RoadRunner | Jan 17, 2017 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
A few years ago we had a friend visit from Philadelphia. She had never been to Texas but had heard about our famous chicken fried steak and was eager to try one. We explained the basic concept: it’s a piece of steak, pounded to make it thin-ish and tender-ish,...
by RoadRunner | Jan 11, 2017 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
A few days ago we wrote about barbecue. Smoked meat. Big slabs of smoked meat. Meat here, meat there, meat, meat everywhere. But fear not: San Antonio does not neglect its vegetarians and vegans. First, a few words of warning. If you are in an omnivore’s...
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