Holiday in the USA
Created | Updated Dec 15, 2002
We have been to the USA on many occasions, but the one I want to tell you about was a number of years ago
The first day if our holiday is all ways "normal", we land at Sanford airport in Orlando Florida, pick up the car then made our way along the I 4 (= to the UK M4) to Daytona beach on the east coast, check into the "Bermuda Villa's " then we have a few beers in the local pubs, including "Checkers" then we make our way back to the motel room and rest for the night.
The following weeks are never "normal", on this occasion we got up the next morning and decided to go to "Texas". So after having breakfast at the Waffle Bar (just down the road from the Datona race track) we make our way onto the I 95 and headed north until we transferred onto the I 10 going west, It was just around that point that we started to hear about a really big fire in Mexico at first we did not take much notice, but then we started to here that there was a lot of smoke going from the fire up into Texas, and as we kept listening it became more obvious that they was having a lot of trouble in Texas from that smoke, and as the wife has asthma we knew that we would not have had much fun there,
Now the good thing about not booking a hotel before you set off is that you are very flexible as to where you go, so having a quick look at the map, we decided to carry on the I 10 for about a hundred miles until we meet the I 75 and then head north up to Nashville, Tennessee.
On the first day we drove up through Georgia passing through Macon and the lovely city of Atlanta, stopping only for fuel and for the odd break we made it to Chattanooga just on the border with Tennessee,
We stopped on the CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO Hotel Train
The first Chattanooga Choo Choo was a real train belonging to the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, it was a small wood burning steam locomotive that started its journey through history from Cincinnati, Ohio on March 5, 1880. Nearly all trains travelling to the South passed through Chattanooga. The wood-burning "Choo Choo" was the first to provide non-stop service.
And it was also immortalised in the song with words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren, and Performed by Glen Miller in1941
We stopped in CHATTANOOGA for a few days taking in the sights (and the beer) before we headed up to Nashville,
We stopped in Nashville for a week visiting the sights like The Grand Old Opera, The Nashville ZOO, (that among its animals are the Eland, a antelope from Central and Southern Africa and the Percheron, a breed of horse that derives its name from an old province, Le Perche, just southwest of Paris, France.), and other Country and western sights
After the week we decided to make our way over to Memphis to have a look at Elvis?s home ?Graceland?
Memphis has got to be the worst town I have come across in the US, it was ugly, dirty, and not the sort of place that you want to stop in for to long,
But Graceland was beautiful and well worth the visit, you can go on his aeroplanes look around his mansion with its very informative tours
After that it was on to the Mississippi and down to New Orleans.
But that?s another story
The first day if our holiday is all ways "normal", we land at Sanford airport in Orlando Florida, pick up the car then made our way along the I 4 (= to the UK M4) to Daytona beach on the east coast, check into the "Bermuda Villa's " then we have a few beers in the local pubs, including "Checkers" then we make our way back to the motel room and rest for the night.
The following weeks are never "normal", on this occasion we got up the next morning and decided to go to "Texas". So after having breakfast at the Waffle Bar (just down the road from the Datona race track) we make our way onto the I 95 and headed north until we transferred onto the I 10 going west, It was just around that point that we started to hear about a really big fire in Mexico at first we did not take much notice, but then we started to here that there was a lot of smoke going from the fire up into Texas, and as we kept listening it became more obvious that they was having a lot of trouble in Texas from that smoke, and as the wife has asthma we knew that we would not have had much fun there,
Now the good thing about not booking a hotel before you set off is that you are very flexible as to where you go, so having a quick look at the map, we decided to carry on the I 10 for about a hundred miles until we meet the I 75 and then head north up to Nashville, Tennessee.
On the first day we drove up through Georgia passing through Macon and the lovely city of Atlanta, stopping only for fuel and for the odd break we made it to Chattanooga just on the border with Tennessee,
We stopped on the CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO Hotel Train
The first Chattanooga Choo Choo was a real train belonging to the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, it was a small wood burning steam locomotive that started its journey through history from Cincinnati, Ohio on March 5, 1880. Nearly all trains travelling to the South passed through Chattanooga. The wood-burning "Choo Choo" was the first to provide non-stop service.
And it was also immortalised in the song with words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren, and Performed by Glen Miller in1941
We stopped in CHATTANOOGA for a few days taking in the sights (and the beer) before we headed up to Nashville,
We stopped in Nashville for a week visiting the sights like The Grand Old Opera, The Nashville ZOO, (that among its animals are the Eland, a antelope from Central and Southern Africa and the Percheron, a breed of horse that derives its name from an old province, Le Perche, just southwest of Paris, France.), and other Country and western sights
After the week we decided to make our way over to Memphis to have a look at Elvis?s home ?Graceland?
Memphis has got to be the worst town I have come across in the US, it was ugly, dirty, and not the sort of place that you want to stop in for to long,
But Graceland was beautiful and well worth the visit, you can go on his aeroplanes look around his mansion with its very informative tours
After that it was on to the Mississippi and down to New Orleans.
But that?s another story
