Overnight Train from Little Rock was delayed which made me miss the train to Kansas City. There was another in the afternoon so had to change the ticket and the lady shoved $15 at me 'for lunch'. I enjoyed my enforced stay in St Louis. Took a metro out to beautiful Forest Park. This is a massive recreational park 1371 acres. You name it it has it. Palace like buildings housing museums- art, history etc. Also golf course, skating rink, tennis courts and so on. I...

Took the Megabus to Little Rock.easy comfortable 3 hour ride. Luckily Taxi waiting and I asked him to take me to the tourist office. The train was not going until 11.30 pm and I needed somewhere to leave my bag. Aargh -I was just finishing this extra long blog apart from the above and it was deleted so now have to do it all again. Will just do a quick précis. Little Rock was great. Even enjoyed the Clinton Presidential Library. Liked the personal stuff. The ...

Took the Megabus to Little Rock.easy comfortable 3 hour ride. Taxi waiting and I asked him to take to the tourist office. The train was not going until 11.30 pm and I needed somewhere to leave my bag. Was told that the station was closed until 10.30pm and it is not a safe place hang around. The lovely black girl Helen at the tourist office said I could leave it there until 6pm as they had a wedding party there. Gave me some sensible tourist advice. Firstly I we...

Although my ticket went to New Orleans, I didn't really want to go there as I had been there before. Wasn't sure where to get off but with the help of the much travelled and very knowledgable car attendant Michel Antoine I chose to alight at Birmingham and take the Megabus to Memphis the same day. The train had no wifi so Michel Antoine booked the bus on his phone for me. Took taxi to Starbucks to get wifi and wait until time to get the bus. The Megabus is much...

Woken at 4am with the phone ringing. I had fallen asleep listening to Podcasts and the phone was somewhere in the big comfortable bed but I couldn't find it it was my son but when i picked it up it rang off. I was worried that there was a problem with Sacha my dog. He text me he had dialled it by mistake and that Sacha was happy which was a relief but with the time difference I couldn't sleep. Fadi is a baker and owns bakeries in Jordan and is setting one up in ...