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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.

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 24 – San Antonio to New Orleans, USA

    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…

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 23 – San Antonio, USA

    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…

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 22 – Dallas to San Antonio, USA

    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…

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 21 – Dallas, USA

    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…

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 20 – Honolulu to Los Angeles to Dallas, USA

    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…