At this point in the trip, it was very strange to suddenly be driving in the car by myself. After cleaning up a bit and reorganizing the car I wasn't sure what to do! Thankfully our host called and let me know that a group of San Antonio couchsurfers were meeting up for a President's Day paella night. I helped him make some beet salad to bring (and by help I mean I peeled a small percent of the very hot beets and watched him add all of the fun doodahs). We got there and were warmly greeted by a good size group. There were amazing tapas (3 different kinds of oils for bread dipping, nuts and dried berries, spiced salami, salted codfish, etc.), a wide variety of drinks (including some delicious sangria) and the paella (regular and veggie) was still on the grills. The age range must have been at least 30 years and there was everyone from the established to the entrepreneur to the guy riding around the country on his bicycle! I got to talk to a number of people, all with interesting stories and travel tips.
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| Landa Library |
On Tuesday morning I woke up with our hosts and shared some breakfast tacos with them. They warmed the tortillas by placing them directly on the gas stove burners. Yummy. They left for work and I decided to lay my head back down for a minute. Three hours later I woke up to the sun shining in and the dog on my feet. It was heavenly and I decided to try and keep the relaxing theme for the rest of the day. Well, every heavenly day must include a trip to the library and so off I went. Like just about every city so far, I was able to enjoy another library flavor. The building looked like a fancy old house with it's red tiled roof and wrought iron porches (not sure that I'm using the exact right words, but you get the idea). Outside there was a playground, a gazebo and some beautiful, beautiful trees.
Next up was a coffee shop that had been recommended to me. It had huge comfy couches and big mugs with unlimited refills (from a handful of different flavors) for only $1. I spent a number of very pleasant hours typing and reading, only interrupted by the frequent tips to the bathroom (darn coffee has a downside). Around 4pm I packed up and headed to the art museum, free to the public on Tuesday evenings 4-9. It has been crazy how these things have worked out throughout our trip. The museum was also amazing and I would definitely recommend checking it out if you're in this area. My night ended with some glorious hours spent in the cell phone waiting lot of the airport catching up on phone calls :). I then picked up Kat and we crashed a little after 1am.
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| Kat's view from the airplane window |
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