Goliad and Bay City

We started Monday by walking on the beach, and then headed inland. Our destination was Goliad State Park. Goliad is famous for the massacre that occurred there during the Texas war of Independence. It was extremely hot, so we mostly stayed in the air conditioned camper.

Tuesday was a much cooler day, so we toured the restored Bahia mission that is part of the state park. After that we headed over to the Presidio, the nearby fort, which is where the Goliad massacre took place. For those of you not knowledgeable about Texas history, more than 300 Texans were executed at Goliad after they had surrendered to the Mexican army, more than were killed at the Alamo. A sad story. The Presidio had also been restored, and had a good museum explaining the history.

We headed into the town of Goliad for lunch. The town has a historic courthouse and other buildings. We had a good lunch at El Empressario restaurant on the town square.

We proceeded on to Bay City, where we went to Michael and Kathy's house. Unfortunately, we clipped a sewer drain on the way there, damaging a tire, so the first order of business on Wednesday will be replacing the trailer tires.

We waited for Kathy to get home from work, and then we headed to an excellent seafood restaurant. The fried pickles and jalepenos were especially good.