But instead, San Antonio was impressively green, spacious, and not overly vertical. I prepared myself for big, tall, brown, desert-like city and landscape. My first impressions of the city were not what I expected or had in my head for the seventh-largest and 3rd fastest growing city in the US, a city that attracts more than 34.4 million visitors a year. We traveled to Galveston, Houston, and Dallas, but our first stop was SAN ANTONIO. Texas is a big state to check off the list as a DO NOT VISIT … except the blue dot with the slogan “keep it weird.” So this past March, I decided to go at Texas with my big gay self and drag along a companion to see what the 4 other major cities had to offer … clap clap clap clap … deep in the heart of Texas. When visiting, all we heard from Austinites was that there’s no other place we were welcome, besides their city. My vacations in Texas have been reserved to a birthday weekend and a weekend of pride, both in Austin, since that’s what us gays outside of Texas have been told. In my adult gay life, I’ve known Austin, Texas as the lonely liberal blue dot in all of the Lone Star State.
Travel Thursday: Living the Big City, Small Town Life in San Antonio, Texas
