{"id":13901,"date":"2025-04-10T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:43:06","slug":"caught-cold-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/caught-cold-in-san-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught cold in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it was the two flights to San Antonio, the graduation ceremony in the cold rain, or the two flights home, somewhere I caught a brutal cold. Ten days of coughing, sore throat, and runny nose<\/p>\n

With 1,500,000 people, San Antonio is huge; it’s the second-largest city in Texas and larger than any city in Ohio. San Antonio has truly horrible traffic. In my experience, the only place with worse traffic is NYC. San Antonio held another surprise for us. Looking for coffee, we went to the convenience store next to our hotel to discover, to our unending horror, that they didn’t have brewed coffee–they never carry it. Writing this now, I still can’t believe it.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

We were in San Antonio for our grandson’s U.S. Air Force boot camp graduation. After eight grueling weeks, Noah and his fellow Bulldogs (each training group, called a Flight, is broken into units, assigned nicknames like Bulldog) were honored in a two-day celebration. The Air Force graduates a class every week, 50 weeks a year.<\/p>\n

Here is Noah in his fatigues.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio—10\/28\/12<\/span><\/a><\/div>


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The first day included drills, marches, and an assortment of events. The second day is graduation. The Air Force keeps its recruits on a tight leash during boot camp. After the graduation ceremony, Noah wanted good food—plenty of food!<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Hurricane Sandy<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Here is Noah in his dress blues.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Thumbs-up: van Ruisdael; Thumbs-down: Renoir<\/span><\/a><\/div>

We visited San Antonio’s popular River Walk, which is a meandering walk lined with restaurants and bars. Here’s a photo I took as we made our way to the Alamo.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Robert Smith<\/span><\/a><\/div>

The final stop before our flight home was the San Antonio Zoo. It’s a great zoo, although not as large as Cincinnati’s or Cleveland’s zoos.<\/p>\n

I took a photo of one of the zoo’s many waterways.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Dayton Art Institute—Fail<\/span><\/a><\/div>

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This trip was my first chance to use my 24 – 70 f\/2 Nikon lens on my Nikon Z8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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