My Road Trip USA led to New Orleans a week before Mardi Gras Tuesday and that proved to be opportune. There were Mardi Gras parades and a great atmosphere, but without the massive crowds. Also I could book into a hotel without breaking the bank! The road journey from Memphis to New Orleans followed the I-55 Highway for […]
Memphis, Tennessee, is well known as the home of Elvis Presley and the place where Martin Luther King was assassinated, but what else does it have to offer? Visiting Memphis, the starting point on my Road Trip USA, was as much to do with picking up a hire car and getting over any jet lag, as it was to seeing the […]
Planning a road trip in the USA during the winter months needs to take into account the weather; no one wants to get stuck in blizzards and thick snow. Hence, my ideas for a three week road trip focussed on the warmer Southern States. A bucket list of places to see and things to do included: Gracelands in […]
by Jean Burnett (A runner-up entry in the Inaugural Travel Writing Competition) My first sight of foreign parts was the bomb scarred Le Havre docks in the post- war years as the ferry arrived and I started my school trip to Normandy. The Bayeaux Tapestry had never seemed so exotic or the smell of gingerbread more delicious. […]
Update August 2016 – Economy Car Hire has been renamed as Zest Car Rental. Car hire brokers such as Auto Europe, Economy Car Hire/Zest Car Rental and Holiday Autos, can take the hard work out of finding which of the very many car hire companies gives the best value for money. But which of these leading […]
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Road Trip USA: Houston, Gulf Coast and San Antonio
Visiting the two largest cities in Texas, Houston and San Antonio, might not sound like such a good idea, but they were on the route for my Road Trip USA from Memphis to Las Vegas. The New Orleans section of our journey would take a lot of living up to, but I approached these Texan cities […]