We left Indiana after halloween with a week ahead of no college parties. They were great fun but to get back into tourist mode was great. We headed down to Memphis from Indiana hoping that it would take us around 5 hours, it ended up taking about 10 and Norman was feeling pretty ropey, shaking like a drunk in need of alcohol! In the end we stopped just outside Memphis and checked into a super 8 motel. These hotels are just like the hotel from my name is earl, horrible! The next morning we headed to Graceland, the main reason for [View Full Entry]

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Mark posting: As Liz mentioned we had an exhausting day of packing on Thursday and we followed that up with a marathon day of driving beginning very early on Friday. More than seventeen hours after leaving DC we arrived in Memphis, TN safely and with all our belongings in tow. We found our hotel, the Holiday Inn Select, with only a minor hiccup - that being when the Garmin proudly announced we had arrived at our destination in the parking lot of an Olive Garden. I could give the little lady (it's a female voice on the Garmin and I call [View Full Entry]

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Day 8 I awoke in a dingy hotel room, but then I went to sleep in one as well. The bed sucked, and there was no matters pad, just a too small too thin sheet. Alas, that is all a distance nightmare tonight. Four states distance. I started in Missouri, took a bridge into Illinois and another into Tennessee and stopped at the post office and the cross at Fort Jefferson Kentucky. This monument overlooks the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The photos do not do it justice. The amount of water that flows east of the Continental Divide [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in Memphis I meet my newest couchsurfing host, Carolina. She picks me up from the station and takes me to her studio apartment. The next day is filled with downtown Memphis. Well, that was the plan. What I didn't take into account was the heat. On the other hand, sitting in a Memphis bar is not the worst thing in the world - be it night or day. Later the visit to the Civil Rights museum, situated in the hotel that bore witness of Martin Luther King's death, blows my mind. Amazingly done and so big and interesting that three [View Full Entry]

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Hi All, We arrived in Gatlinburg on Sunday, August 23rd. As I said in the last blog, it was a long drive, but once we settled in and explored the area, we really liked it there. Our campsite was so nice. We were right on the creek with shade trees all around. It was a small campground, but that was just fine with us. The worst part was getting to Gatlinburg through Sieverville and Pigeon Forge. I have never seen such commericalism any where like there. We lost count of the hotels, motels, retaurants, novelty shops, miniture golf, musical shows, [View Full Entry]

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Southaven is where we stayed the night. It's just outside Memphis Tennessee. We left the hotel about 10am and arrived at Graceland at 10:30. The 14-acre estate features the mansion that was home to Elvis from 1957 until his death in 1977, as well as an Elvis Presley Museum, stables, and Elvis’ final resting place in the Meditation Garden.. The white columned mansion seems almost modest from the outside but you can see that it was far from modest inside. Of course it's been years since Elvis's death so the decor was of the time when he was alive. More than [View Full Entry]

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August 27th 2009 Dorothy (of The Wizard of Oz fame) once said - well, actually she said it many times - 'there's no place like home'. It was a sentiment at the front of my mind whilst sitting in my lovely hotel room in Amarillo, TX about two weeks ago now. Whilst this trip has been amazing, fascinating, eye-opening, sometimes I would just like to go home. You ever had that feeling? Turns out someone was reading my mind. And so sent me to Oklahoma and Arkansas. My aunt (the one who described Barstow, CA, as the armpit of the world) [View Full Entry]

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Hello, Monday , today I dropped the family off to go shopping at Walmart while I went and had a yak to the local Dodge dealer.They have some really nice Dodge Challengers over here, theyre like a charger but better. One he had on the lot had a 6.1L Hemi, he reckons they sell one a week. Then I went and bought some stuff from home depot to build me a shelf in my cupbards on my side of the bed. Then I went and picked them up and we found a book shop for the kids. Then we went to [View Full Entry]

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At Easter this year my husband and I took a trip across the lower part of the USA, starting in the bustle of Atlanta and quickly heading north to the Smoky mountains and the mini Vegas style Pigeon Forge. The road was dark and winding with bears and raccoons raiding rubbish bins at each passing picnic site but when we finally arrived it was a mix of Southern hospitality and the big, bright, brashness of US tourism, a kitsch but surprisingly friendly big, little town in the heart of mountain country. Our room came complete with a heart shaped jacuzzi next [View Full Entry]

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Hola Folks! So this is the first entry in my travel blog for my experience in Europe. I'm actually quite excited to be studying at Oxford and touring parts of the continent. For the past few months I've been getting a lot of questions about where I'm going and what I'm doing, so I thought it'd be cool to do a blog so that you lovely people can keep up with my doings Ok so I just finished the first part of the European Studies program which was conducted at the University of the South. I took a class that spanned [View Full Entry]

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