On Mike's birthday, 20 Feb, we flew from Texas to Los Angeles, California. Without too much fuss we made it to our hotel on Venice Beach and were initially struck by how bright and attractive the place was - can definitely see why it's called the sunshine state. The view from our hotel window was amazing (the beach was just across the car park). For the entire stay I think we were a little awe struck every time we opened or closed the blinds (we took a lot of pho...

Who would have guessed it that there are real life cowboys and to be politically correct cowgirls in the world (other than dodgy building merchants back in the UK). We arrived early evening after a full day travelling the Greyhound from Little Rock across state lines (Arkansas into Dallas) into Fort Worth and had a short taxi ride with Preacher Man with his laid back attitude and chilled out conversation whilst pointing out at random all the sites en-route. We ...

First impressions don't always count, we got off the Greyhound and the look on Kelly's face said it all, almost a pleading look of "I hope this isn't it!" and "can we get back on and keep going". We were directed to an un-marked road to wait for a taxi in a fairly dodgy side of town (as seems to be the case for all Greyhound bus stations). We waited around looking sufficiently lost and sure enough 5 mins passed and a taxi pulled in. We rode the taxi across one o...

After a long day of travelling and hanging about, we finally got to Memphis and went straight to bed (not even the lights of Beale Street could entice us out). The following day we missed breakfast but were given a handful of svenhard cheese horns (no really) to start the day which were as ropey as they sound and not actually cheesy at all. We set out in search of Graceland only to be distracted by breakfast. We hunted out Arcade (as seen on Man v Food now renam...

We spent a few days in Vicksburg to break up the journey from New Orleans to Memphis. We stayed on the grounds of the oldest house in Vicksburg built by the Vick Family ages ago. The hotel - the McNutt House - was lovely - it was a suite with a full kitchen next door including laundry facilities (exciting stuff!!). Vicksburg is a small town - pretty enough but not loads to do. The local museum was closed due to bad weather (about 5 snowflakes although very cold...