Miami to Cocoa Beach - 41°c After such a big night out last night, I wasn’t particularly thrilled to hear my alarm going off at 7am this morning, but nevertheless got up, picked up my suitcase that I thankfully packed last night, and headed down to another buffet breakfast. I met up with Nathan, Tim and Danni on the way in, so we shared a table, and although I wasn’t particularly hungry, I managed to eat a fair bit to say I did justice to a breakfast buffet! After breakfast, we boarded the bus and got on our way towards Cocoa Beach at 8am. I seem to be getting used to getting comfortable enough to sleep on the bus, and managed to drift off for a while before we arrived at our first stop at Port ... read more

Orlando to Miami - 34°c After yesterday’s very long day at the Magic Kingdom, I woke up this morning with a very sore throat and a bit of a cold. - Perhaps a tell tale sign that I’m getting run down from the early mornings, long days and late nights. I guess when there’s so much to see in such a short space of time, there’s very little time for rest in between stops. Anyway, I “sucked it up”, (as many of Aussies on our bus say) kept smiling and kept going for as long as I could, as best I could. We left our Kissimmee hotel at 7:30am and begun our journey down to the Everglades. I managed to fall asleep for the majority of the journey, so don’t have much to say about that ... read more

Pensacola to Orlando - 33°c Pardon the lack of content in today’s blog, but today was one of the least active and least interesting days of the tour. It was the day with the most travelling and most miles covered so far, with nearly 11 hours on the road (including a one hour lunch stop and a few quick rest stops), right the way down the centre of the sunshine state of Florida, from Pensacola to Orlando. After waking up around 7:15am, we left our Pensacola hotel at 7:45am and started our trip to the fun capital of the world! In between our stop for lunch in Tallahassee and one of our rest stops in Gainesville, I managed to catch up with some sleep on the coach whilst several of the others watched ‘Pirates of the ... read more

New Orleans - 38°c (plus humidity levels through the roof!) After a fantastic (but late) night out last night, I didn’t wake up until 9:30am, which made a good change since I needed the extra rest. From 9:30am onwards, it seemed as thought the entire coach party was knocking on mine and Scott’s bedroom door and coming in for a chat at some point or another! I didn’t actually get to look outside the room window, but I did wonder if there was a queue forming around the corner! Subsequently I didn’t get to leave the hotel until 11:45am, when I headed to the Burger King around the corner from the hotel for a bit of late breakfast / early lunch with Michelle, Marnee, Lauren, (Aussie) Danni, Scott and Tim. After our food whilst everyone else ... read more

Memphis - 33°c Somehow I managed to get up early enough this morning to make the bus to Graceland! We departed for Graceland soon after 8am, and Scott and I were definitely still a bit drunk when we woke up after our three and a half hour sleep! We were still giggling as much as we were the night before and running on the adrenalin of the night before too. We arrived at Graceland just before 9am and were some of the first people there. - I guess Kristina wanted to get us there as early as possible to avoid the queues later on in the day. Our first point of interest was to head to Graceland mansion, otherwise known as Elvis Presley’s home. What surprised me first of all as we pulled into Graceland, was ... read more