Our Very Cultured Pearl: the Hippest Place in Town

by RoadRunner | Feb 23, 2020 | food & drink, history, San Antonio insider, shopping, Sightseeing

Sunday’s walks will took you through The Pearl, one of the trendiest spots in San Antonio. We’ve scheduled the start times so that you will hit it about the time the farmer’s market opens: 10AM-2PM, rain or shine. This is a producers-only...

Need groceries? Go to Your H.E.B.

by RoadRunner | Dec 4, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider, shopping

Need groceries while you are at the Holiday Inn-Downtown, our event hotel? Go to your H.E.B. at 516 S. Flores, only a 5 minute walk. Turn  right after leaving the hotel and walk down West Cesar Chavez one block to S. Flores and turn right. It’s there on the...

El Mercado

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...

The Missions: In Color!

by RoadRunner | Jan 16, 2017 | art, history, San Antonio insider, shopping

When you visit the San Antonio Mission — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — on Saturday’s walks during the Texas Trail Roundup you will no doubt be struck, as many are, by the plain, clean lines of the weathered native stone silhouetted against the clear...

Walk Like a Texan: Cowboy Boots

by RoadRunner | Jan 6, 2017 | San Antonio insider, shopping

To walk like a Texan you will need boots, preferably more than one pair. You need an old, comfortable beat-up pair to do things like rope a steer or chop cedar in the back forty, but you also need a fancy dress pair to wear with your tux at your daughter’s...

Dress Like a Texan: The Guayabera

by RoadRunner | Jan 5, 2017 | San Antonio insider, shopping

If the weather is warm in February you may see men wearing one of the traditional shirts of San Antonio: the guayabera. It’s men’s shirt typically distinguished by two vertical rows of closely sewn pleats that run the length of the front and back of the...