I slept like a log last night! At breakfast we shared the room with a favourite son of Winterset, John Wayne. he was born here and so our first stop after leaving the hotel was his home which is now, naturally, a museum. Along the front path was a series…
We’re back! After three long years we’re finally returned to the USA again to work on our 50 states mega-mission. The first part of our night-before indulgence stay at the Sydney Rydges Airport was wonderful …. to toast the upcoming trip with some bubbly and watch the evening flights come…
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally on our way. We indulged ourselves with a “night before” stay at the Rydges at Sydney Airport. It’s lovely to toast the start of the trip with some bubbly in the bar and on our last two stays we’ve been upgraded…
We had a lovely start to our day. We had been hoping to catch up with Blake and Rebecca, the son and daughter in law of our friends Gae and Greg. Blake fell in love with Bec, a lovely Southern belle from Lafayette and they now make their home in…
It was wet and miserable when we woke this morning and we worried that our plans for the day would need rejigging, but by the time we returned from breakfast the sun was breaking through the clouds. Its Sunday today and the museums didn’t open til 10am but our body…
After last nights heavy thunderstorm we woke to more weather this morning…thick fog! With hopes that things would improve we drove off to the start of the Talimena Scenic Byway, which has the reputation of being one of the most scenic drives in the Ozark Mountains, and takes in the…
Today we dithered around between the two states, crossing the state border a few times in our drive down from the mountains. Before leaving Eureka Springs we stopped in to see the beautiful Thorncrown Chapel, it’s a soaring piece of stunning architecture nestled in the woods and constructed almost entirely…
Our drive today started with the “Scenic 7” Byway which leads from Hot Springs up in to the Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas. Or at least, it started after a slight navigational glitch which had us driving 10 miles in the wrong direction! However once on track we took a…
..States that is. We have now visited 36 states in the Union, only 14 more to go till we reach the golden 50! We crossed into Arkansas only a few minutes after leaving the hotel this morning as the border lies in the middle of the Mississippi River. From the…
Today we made a return to Memphis, which we’d visited in 2012 on our Cross-country trip. At that time we’d done the major sites of the town ( Graceland, of course!) so today was more about sights en-route to Memphis. We were keen to drive a section of the Natchez…
We woke to another bright sunny day and set off after breakfast on foot. It was only about a 10 minute walk down to the main music sights but on the way we passed a couple of parks where the homeless people seem to congregate. You see these poor people…
Well, we’ve been as far East as we’re going to get on this trip so it was time today to head South…on to Tennessee. We’ve been to Tennessee previously, but only the tiny corner of it that Memphis is in, so in the next couple of days we’ll be seeing…
