North America

Everyone knows that Texas is big – really big! In fact it is about twice the size of Germany. But you only realise how big when you drive right across from east to west as we did on our Road Trip USA. We’d already driven nearly 400 miles across the state on the Houston and San Antonio sector of […]

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 […]

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 […]