After four days in Memphis where else would you go to but Nashville, Tennessee which is locally known as Music City. This time we stuck to the rather boring interstate highway rather than local roads. We are always amazed at how many trucks are on the road (yes trucks keep a country moving) but the speed at which they travel is staggering. It is not uncommon to see a convoy of about ten coming towards you (yes it is at least a four to six lane highway with a gras...

We are certainly in country music USA. They say this part of the country is not really about the sights but about the atmosphere. Music, music, music! As we have travelled we have crossed the great Mississippi River a number of times and coming into Memphis we spent quite sometime creeping up and sitting on top of the bridge due to an earlier accident which was completely cleared by the time we passed. Surprisingly we have seen few boats or ships on the river and...

Leaving Waco, Texas we made the decision to bypass Dallas and Fort Worth and head direct to Memphis, Tennessee. We could have taken the interstate highway all the way but instead took some of the lesser highways (all four lane other than a very short section) which took us through rural Texas and the smaller towns. It is so much more interesting. We have no doubt that Halloween is about to be celebrated - lots of shops, churches and houses have decorations on dis...

We travelled through southern Alabama and continued through the lower portion of Mississippi and entered Louisiana with our destination New Orleans. Our initial thoughts had been to stay at a RV facility near the French Quarter but when they quoted $95 plus tax a night to stay in an inner city car-parking lot we quickly changed our minds. Instead we booked into another car parking type facility on the other side of the Mississippi River and paid just $30 a night ...

After weeks of travelling and sightseeing we have decided it is time for a holiday! So the last couple of weeks we have slowed right down and holidayed on the west coast of Florida. This whole coast is rather spectacular and we have decided that we much prefer it to the east. However, we have seen much more of the west so that may be an unfair statement. After just two nights in St Petersburg to allow Peter to attend a work meeting we continued our travels north....