Comments on: Day 2: Texas, Luling to San Antonio

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:29:49 +0000

Really missing out if you have not yet made it to Diamond A Goss BBQ & Convenient/Gas Store in Belmont, Texas!! It is a unique, one of a kind excellent experience!! So many homemade goodies to choose from, fresh homemade desserts made daily, smoked jalapeño poppers to name a few.... you will not find better BBQ anywhere!! 5 star, the employees are all friendly and the bathrooms are rated the cleanest in the county of Gonzales!!

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:09:37 +0000

In reply to Kenneth Webb. That’s one reason I Love my home state! A variety of good Southern food and friendly people.

By: jblilie

jblilie — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:24:37 +0000

In reply to Mark R.. Even if it IS 10am! :)

By: jblilie

jblilie — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:22:33 +0000

In reply to Kenneth Webb. Those all sound wonderful! Yum!

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 05:01:40 +0000

In reply to veroxitatis.

So you must be one of the Gen. Z whippersnappers I guess. hhehe
Funny how we age ourselves by our music. My first pocket money album was by ABBA. 🙂
D.A.
NYC

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 04:57:51 +0000

Color me jealous of your trip there. I’m not a big meat eater but I do like BBQ from time to time and the “BBQ porn” you post makes me damn hungry.
Nice you could meet the readers (also possible in NYC though I can’t vouch for our BBQ) however I’m amazed your friend could make his cat happy and not insane in the car. All the best. keep eating and posting cowboy,
D.A.
NYC

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:08:08 +0000

Sagan is beautiful. I love cats with lots of white. Real white hair, not pink skin that we have and call it white. I’m a painter. I’ve never seen white skin…only white bones, even dead skin isn’t quite “white” is it?

By: Phil Finnimore

Phil Finnimore — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:01:23 +0000

I was born in Australia 13,000km (8000 miles) from San Antonio but I too had a coonskin hat when I was a kid. Such was the reach of American culture.

By: JezGrove

JezGrove — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:27:31 +0000

The Mexican leader at the Battle of the Alamo, General Antonio de López de Santa Anna is a fascinating character.

He has the unique distinction of being head of state of the same country on eleven occasions (once, for just a fortnight).

His fancy wooden leg (worth $1,300 back in 1847!) was taken by the victorious Americans in the Battle of Cerro Gordo and is in the Illinois State Military Museum, while his cheaper spare peg-leg was used as a baseball bat by General Abner Doubleday and is on display in the Oglesby Mansion Museum in Decatur, Georgia.

Yet another of Santa Anna’s claims to fame is that through his habit of chewing chicle gum, whilst in exile in New York, he introduced American inventor Thomas Adams to the substance. Adams bought a ton of the stuff from Santa Anna, which he hoped would be a cheap substitute for rubber. That project failed, but by adding sugar to it Adams founded the chewing gum industry – his company later merged with Wrigley’s, which in 2006 had a turnover of $4.6 billion…

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:34:10 +0000

Those BBQ joints look like lots of fun…especially eating all that delicious food with no utensils! I think I’d have to do beer instead of tea though; unless it’s 10am! LOL!