Peg & I drove into San Antonio using the Garmin for navigation. We seemed to be going in all directions except toward San Antonio but we ultimately made it into town and parked 2 blocks from the Alamo.
The Alamo is quite historic but the folks who designed and maintain the site seem to have very little to show about the Alamo other than the church structure that was part of the site along with some walls that were still the same as they appeared during the siege. The guys who fought here must have been brave because the facility is basically indefensible when attempting to withstand the onslaught of 4000 pissed-off Mexicans. Santa Ana, the Mexican general, must have been quite inconvenienced by these pesky defenders because after the siege he burned all the bodies of the Texans for spite.
We also took a ride on a couple of trolleys that allow you to get on and off whenever you want. It is a great system and we went to the Market Square stop to eat at Mi Tierra. Pretty good food here. The trolley ticket is $4 to ride all day which is a great bargain and allows you to see a big portion of downtown at a leisurely pace.
We stopped in at the visitor info center and obtained a shitload of brochures about the area before heading back to Medina Trench by the same circuitous route we used to get there.