Day FIFTEEN South | Turbines Turn Towards San Antonio

In the morning, everybody was rushed to pack their stuff up and get ready for San Antonio. Before we left, we had group photos with the Big Bend mountains as a background. We were so excited that we could take a nap until we would arrive in to San Antonio, however, Julie's assignment was waiting for us. Since it was a pretty long driving, 8 hours, so we had a plenty time for the assignment and our little nap. For Julie's assignment, we had to look over the window, and find five functional dimensions of technology according to Robert Thayer. Even though we had been traveling for six weeks, we had never really consider the landscape in our daily life. We usually thought that we can study landscape architecture  through the reading material, however,  we feel this is a much better way to grasp the ideas. 

The Ladies

On the way to San Antonio, we stopped by the wind farm at noon. Luckily we could see the wind farm turbin closer.  The wind farm was beautiful with the sharp white blades all over the landscape. They have become one of the main alternative resources to produce electricity in Texas. We got a lecture from the person who managed the facility and after that we drove closer to see the details of the turbine. After the short tour of the wind farm, we continued our journey to go to San Antonio. Mostly during driving time, a lot of people fell asleep. But because the driving day too long, we became really bored, and we decided to watch a movie along the road. It was a pretty good way to spend time in the van.

Finally we arrived in San Antonio around 8 pm. It was pretty late but we were so excited because we were staying in hotel and could take a shower! Since we could not take a shower for three days in Big Bend . After we loaded off, we ran into hotel to take a shower, and went out to eat. There were fancy restaurants along the river walk, and we enjoyed our rest of the day. Some people went out to the riverside mall across our hotel. It is a beautiful mall with the river running inside its courtyard. 

Seohee and Jessica