For Christmas this year, we flew into San Antonio and stayed overnight before heading to the Texas Hill Country to meet up with the rest of the family. It had been 13 years since we’d been there, and let me tell you, San Antonio is much more enjoyable when it’s not 110 degrees like it was that summer! Instead of temps above 100 degrees, it was only 79 degrees on Christmas Day.

I’m always amazed by San Antonio’s size. It’s the second-largest city in Texas, with 1.5 million people, and the 7th-largest city in the US. But it doesn’t feel that large. It also has a long history, dating back to the founding of the San Antonio de Valero mission and San Antonio de Bexar Presidio in 1718.

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