San Antonio USA

[coxsy]

visted the Alamo today must be the first battle field Ive seen that is now in the middle of a city and is the worse for it all outer walls long removed only barracks and church remain, funny way to honor 200 men who died to form Texas

[mike77]

Is this a work trip or just pleasure?, sounds bloody good either way!

[MNC]

visted the Alamo today must be the first battle field Ive seen that is now in the middle of a city and is the worse for it all outer walls long removed only barracks and church remain, funny way to honor 200 men who died to form Texas

Let me know if you find a way to get a 40" bogger back to NZ cheap Coxsy...

And I'm looking forward to seeing the photos of all the big trucks over there

[coxsy]

tyres maybe sometime when we get a car, just back from 2 days in Huston trip on the ship channel cool sea air and 3 oil Refinerys NZ has 1 visted the battlefield where San A Ana lost Sam Huston won, San A Ana was a loon, and Battleship Texas this a premo place we went from top to bottom of a battleship sometimes only person in that area of the ship, 573 ft long 5 14'' gun turrets 8 5'' gun turrets more AA guns that you could poke a stick at + two searchlights on it came from the sunken Arizona,Visted Huston space space centre, to much time money and people to be a put up job pete
Can see a point to the way Alamo the way it is and the work that has gone on on the place the war was won ,

[coxsy]

Well been up to west Texas, oil pumps for miles, tankers collecting oil. soo flat you can see 50 miles in each direction. a 100 miles if you stand on a tuna can.
anys seen the CAF airshow, nice hardware 2 P51's 1 C ans 1 D model two B17's 4 B25's 1 B24 ,4 F16's 4 A10's A TBM Avenger , SBD helldriver and F8F bearcat,chated to pilot of a F5 love's NZ ,Auckland ,queens town and malbrough wine, Also 2 B1s ,C17. fly by, oh B1 full afterburner pass from 500ft to 16,000 sweeeet ,pyrotecknects, loud, massive smoke rings , great friendly people had fun

[coxsy]

well life starts again in nz

[coxsy]

a guy i met in san antonio s his trailgear FJ criuser

a nicly done jeep

2 door xj

lifted hummer h3

mitzi Endevor

[coxsy]

this jeep had yellow texture paint ,oh was in san fran

a two door explorer

[coxsy]

here the Alamo

outer walls were here between buildings

comamder travis cannon position this side

james bowie cannon position this side now under building

low barracks rebuilt but not in battle design

cenotaph to the dead

[coxsy]

General sana ana burned the dead texans


remain interred in this cathedral

[coxsy]

this is what mission Alamo looked like before the battle