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Tag: USA

  • World Trip 1999-2000: Day 25 – New Orleans, USA

    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…

  • 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…