From redneck women to Michelle Obama, we made our way up through the Appalachian Mountains (the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Shenandoah National Park in Virginia where we finally saw a bear!) to Washington, District of Colombia oh yah.We probably chose the hottest and most humid day of the year to head out sightseeing but we couldn't miss out on seeing The White House now could we? We'd heard that Washington DC is surprisingly a bit of a dump with...

Keeping with the music theme, we drove from Memphis to Nashville to check out those honky tonk hillbilly country music folks.We'd been told the American Idol auditions were in town…Was that a wannabe Carrie Underwood I can hear?Oh no, it's just a Dolly Parton admirer screeching out from Tootsie's Bar.Very amusing this country music stuff and all very simple.All you need is a steel guitar, a fiddle or two and some bloke called Hank singing about a small southern...

Put on my blue suede shoes (well, flip flops) And I boarded the plane (well, we drove in Frank) Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain (literally chucking it down) Then I'm walking in Memphis Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale Walking in Memphis But do I really feel the way I feel Yeah baby, we had made it to the home of the Delta Blues and The King himself, Mr Elvis Presley.Now I'm no big Elvis fan but ...

After the last 11 days out of 12 sleeping in the tent, we decided to step it up a notch when we got to Chicago and seek out a hostel.However, little did I know Anthony already had a plan up his sleeve when we parked up and made our way over to a very funky hotel…where he had already booked us into a suite!Now I'm normally happy to rough it and I've definitely got used to the hostel and tent life but at heart, I'm really a nice fluffy dressing gown (they were ta...

With the long drive east 'across the top' before us, we allocated 4 days to make it to Chicago breaking the journey now and then to visit little pieces of pure Americana.First pit stop was one of the most famous icons of the US - the 4 presidents cut into the rock at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills.Hadn't quite appreciated before that it was literally in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota and still don't quite know why it was constructed there.Anyway, it was...