Travels
Cruzin around the World with Geoff & Susan
You are more than welcome to take a look into our lives as Geoff and Susan travel around Australia and the world.
Dallas, Texas
Christmas Eve 2019 12C – 22C and sunny We drove from NASA, past Houston city centre and in a northerly direction towards Dallas on Monday late afternoon. It was simply amazing that it took at least 2 hours of driving through built up areas, multilevel freeways and thousands of vehicles
Space Centre Houston
Monday 23rd December 2019 The Space Centre is on the southern side of Houston by 40 minutes. We took a 9th Level Tour which gave us a behind the scenes access to how astronauts train and how NASA communicates with the International Space Station (ISS). It was a fantastic experience
Houston Day 2
Sunday 22nd December 2019 6C – 16C and sunny We took a drive to Galveston which is actually an island. Of course as you would now come to expect we could drive there because there’s a great bridge joining the mainland to the island. It is a historic settlement of
Houston
Saturday 21st December 2019 It was an easy day today. Late breakfast, did some Christmas shopping and welcomed Liam to the US of A.
New Orleans to Houston, Texas
Friday 20th December 2019 We made an early start to drive through Baton Rouge, crossing the state line into Texas. I have often heard the saying “everything is BIGGER in Texas”, well I am about to disagree. Everything in the US is BIG. Traveling between New Orleans and Houston today
New Orleans – Day 2
Thursday 19th December 2019 5C – 13C and sunny This morning was spent exploring and shopping. The afternoon we boarded the Creole Queen Paddle Steamer for a trip up the Mississippi to the Chalmette Battlefield.
New Orleans – Day 1
Wednesday 18th December 2019 3C – 12C and fine NOLA, the abbreviation for New Orleans Louisiana. We drove out of town today to the bayou at Barataria. Bayou means an extremely slow-moving body of water. The bayou is connected to a complex series of man made canals that allow massive
Memphis to New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday 17th December 2019 0C – 5C and snowing. Driving to New Orleans where it is 9C. Memphis is on the Mississippi River in the south west corner of Tennessee. We stopped by the Mississippi River and braved the cold to take a look at this mighty river. From where
Memphis, Tennessee
Monday 16th December, 2019 1C – 5C Thunderstorms Welcome to Elvis country. We went to Graceland today. It doesn’t disappoint. They have continued to develop the site since we were last here so we saw a number of new exhibitions. Of course the house itself is where most people feel
Nashville to Memphis, Tennessee
Sunday 15th December 2019 8C – 13C Foggy morning. Partly cloudy. In the words of Johnny Cash “I’m going to Memphis, Memphis Tennessee.” We drove out of a foggy Nashville this morning. The streets were quiet being a Sunday and made our way to a roadside stop for breakfast at
Nashville, Tennessee
Saturday 14th December 2019 Today was all about country music. We visited the Country Music Hall of Fame to hear the stories of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, June Carter, Rosanne Cash, Garth Brooks, Pierce Webb, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Taylor Swift, Charlie
Asheville to Nashville via Knoxville
Friday 13th December 2019 6C – 8C and rainy We have arrived in Tennessee. Yee Ha!!! Today we hit the road to travel over the Great Smokey Mountains to Nashville via ‘the World’s Largest Knife Shop’. It certainly didn’t disappoint – knives and guns galore. What amazed me is that’s a
Asheville, North Carolina
Thursday 12th December 2019 -4C to 7C Carmel and I spent the day at the Biltmore Estate. Biltmore House is the former home of George Washington Vanderbilt, his wife Edith and daughter Cornelia. It took 10 years to plan and build the home which officially opened in 1895. It is
Charleston to Asheville
Wednesday 11th December 2019 These next two days were always going to be subject to prevailing weather conditions. We have the Great Smokey Mountains to cross and if we encounter a cold blast which brings the snow we would have to find an alternative route around the mountains to Nashville. As it
Edenton to Charleston
Sunday 8th December We explored downtown Edenton before driving onto Charleston choosing to take the back roads rather than the freeways. It was quite noticeable the decline in living standards with many houses in a poor state of repair or abandoned although. We saw lots (hundreds and hundreds) of mobile homes. They are
Washington to Edenton
Saturday 7th December 2019 We picked up our hire car – a Dodge Charger from Raegan Airport and started driving south. We drove over and under some massive expanses of water in Chesapeake region before arriving in Edenton. A pretty little down on the water with a population of 5000. On the
Charleston Day 2
Tuesday 10th December 2019 We joined the other guests in the dining room for breakfast at this 170 yr old Charleston residence. We are staying in the carriage house. It’s 2 levels with the sitting room downstairs and the dining room and 2 bedrooms upstairs built over the original carriage garage. The
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