Leave site about 8 & head towards Carlsbad Caverns, of all the times for my camera to faulter on me, arghhhh!!! What an amazing spectacle, the caves were absolutley incredible, if im honest again not what i was expecting at all. we have headphones and spend about 2 hours, 2-2.5 miles, wallking around the caves looking at all the cave formations and hearing the history of the cave. Go back above ground and temperatures have hit 40degrees celsius. Drive to...

Pack up camp and leave about 8.30, we head into san Antonio it's self & visit the Alamo, a fort back in the 19th century used to fight of mexicans from taking the capital back, this is where Davy Crockett died fighting. Really hot today, about 37degrees celsius. After the Alamo we head down to the riverwalk, which if im all honest didn't expect it to be what it was. I was expecting a plain river with grass verges with few trees but in a way it reminded me ...

We set off earlier, as discussed the previous night, at about 7.30. We are told that the stop of will be at Austin, Texas for a couple of hours to a park/river. We arrive in Austin a couple of hours later & head down to the Barton Spring River, the river and bankment is filled with adults,kids & pets all swimming, sunbathing, paddling in canoes and playing ball games. We find a spot to settle down at & me Nigel & Facu decide to hire a tin Kayak...

Wake up about 8ish, pack up my stuff & Alex makes egg bacon & cheese muffins for the group, very nice and fills a hole in my stomach! Leave the hotel and New Orleans about 10ish and headed to our surprise destination this time being the place where they make Tobasco sauce, very short tour but still good to see nonetheless! We arrive at the camp site but rain is forecast so Taft asks the group if we wanted to stay in cabins for an extra $8 each which of co...

Wake up around 8am, head to the internet café for half hour. After the time we all left and walked to the french market, see local produce etc and then took a walk along the edge of the Mississippi River towards the shopping complex where we had lunch. I had a crayfish/prawn combo which is a half crusty breadstick with the soft white centre scooped out and filled with rice and topped with cray fish & prawns with a different type of rice & colslaw on th...