Category: World Trip 1999-2000
A 118-day world trip visiting six countries – New Zealand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and Wales between 11 November 1999 and 6 March 2000.
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Wednesday 8 December 1999 Highlights: Elvis Presley Graceland visit Luckily today we got to visit Graceland and visit the home of the King. The tour was different to what I expected in that you only heard of all the good things in Elvis’ life, his records, awards, movies and army career. However despite not getting…
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Tuesday 7 December 1999 Highlights: Economic despair of the area 😦 The overnight Greyhound bus got in around 7 am and we had to walk to the cheapest motel we could find in the area since there are no hostels in Memphis for some reason. We ended up staying at the Admiral Benbow Inn which…
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Monday 6 December 1999 Highlights: Voodoo and New Orleans Crypts A late start to the day getting up around 9.30 am. Today we went on the Voodoo / Cemetery walking tour. Our guide explained how voodoo developed in New Orleans and how it has partially merged with Christian briefs to ensure local acceptance or at…
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Sunday 5 December 1999 Highlights: Louisiana State Museum, Jazz. The 10 people in our dorm certainly made a lot of noise last night, I wonder if I’ll ever get used to this way of sleeping being woken up several times each night. We started the day with a walking tour of the French Quarter. The…
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Saturday 4 December 1999 Highlights: Street Car, French Quarter, Classic Jazz We got in around 9 am after a 12 hour bus trip from Dallas. It appears that in general Americans can be a little short tempered with bad attitudes, at least on long bus rides. They are definitely more assertive standing up for what…
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Friday 3 December 1999 Highlights: The Alamo, Garden River at night. Today we visited the world famous Alamo. We learned about its long history as a missionary it’s major role in the Texas / Mexican War of Independence. The Texas force was outnumbered 6 to 1 but held on for 13 days. This battle ended…
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Thursday 2 December 1999 Highlights: Garden River Today was decision day, either get a car or get a travel pass to travel around the USA. after checking prices we went for the Greyhound America Pass which at $479 each for three months was great value. While this took most of the day we did visit…
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Wednesday 1 December 1999 Highlights: JFK Sixth Floor Museum. We could not get the AAA membership today so it felt like we wasted a bit of time trying to organise this and purchase of a car. We did however do a lot of walking around Dallas to take in the sites. We visited the excellent…
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Tuesday 30 November 1999 Highlights: Air conditioning, friendly Texans We spent the day trying to organise a car for our trip around USA. The day didn’t start well when we overslept which I’m putting down to the time zone difference not being lazy but I guess we will see. Unfortunately the car insurance information haven’t…
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Monday 29 November 1999 Highlights: Making it to Dallas Sleeping last night proved to be very different when we had two women next door fighting and crying over having to travel together which kept both Jon and myself up for most of the night before our alarms went off at 4.30 am. I felt like…
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