We decided to stay in the town of Fort Worth, not too far from Dallas, which is also known as Cowtown! The first night we were there we headed downtown on the bus, but got ourselves in a right mess and spent a couple of hours riding buses in every direction apart from Downtown! When we finally got there we went to Sundance Square, the entertainment district and had dinner, whilst listening to Country music! We were really excited to see people (and they weren'...

We managed to make our bus trip second time around, thanks to our alarm, a hotel wake up call and Dad calling us! We checked into a hotel after a 10 hour bus journey from Memphis. We decided to stay in the French Quarter and as we drove through the city it was quite sad to see many of the businesses had closed down, there was still quite a lot of construction work going on, but on the whole, apart from how quiet it was, there was very little evidence of Hurricai...

On our last day in Memphis we went to Graceland! Elvis bought the 500 acre farm and mansion in 1957 for $100,000. He lived at Graceland until his death in 1977 and he is buried there still with his Mother, Father and Grandmother, there's also a plaque for his brother. He was moved to Graceland for security reasons, after being buried at a local cemetary with his Mother. The tour included the mansion, where we saw the jungle room, games room, kitchen and TV ro...

Our first night in Memphis was fantastic, we took the Trolley (tram) downtown to Beale Street, which is the street made famous by it's music. The street was originally a 'Black Only' street, when Memphis was racially segregated and was home to black music such as the Blues, Jazz and Soul. Many of the greats originally started performing in clubs on Beale Street. Nowadays the streets are lit with neon lights and becomes the main nightlife area of Memphis at nig...

We hired a car for the day to vist the Everglades and the Florida Keys. The Everglades, which is the largest subtropical wilderness in the USA, also known as the River of Grass,. It was originally called Pa-hay-okee by the Calusa Indians meaning 'grassy water'. We took an airboat ride into the Everglades, which was really good. It was like being on a big lawn mower, because you couldn't actually see any of the water in places, just grass! We saw quite a few Al...