Nashville - the home of country music. This was another place that disappointed me. There wasn't that much downtown. The day I was there it seemed like the only reason people were there was to watch the bike race that was winding around some of the streets. That having been said I still managed to have a good time. On the evening after I arrived I walked down the long hotel-and-restaurant-lined street and picked a steakhouse to eat in. I had my first taste of bi...

"Come to Hot Springs, Arkansas and have a black guy smack your butt!" That's what the advertising slogan should be for this place. But then it might put people off. But that's how I could choose to describe my experience here. Firstly, I'm really glad I chose this place to be my stopover point in Arkansas, rather than my initial 'obvious' choice of Little Rock, the capital city. I was lucky that I could walk to everything I wanted here. The Greyhound b...

Well, I really lucked out in Austin, Texas! I started the day in San Antonio in my hotel room, taking my time to get up and ready, knowing there were a dozen buses to Austin and therefore no need to hurry, for a change. Checkout was at 11am and at exactly 11am there was a knock on the door and two members of staff reminded me it was checkout time. I pointed at my partially-packed bag and managed to get a five minute reprieve. They are keen there! The bus journey...

Hmmm, slightly disappointing. That's how I'd sum up San Antonio. I was in town for almost two days and I saw all I wanted to in that time. The Alamo was okay but since I already knew the history before I got there I didn't learn much from it and I couldn't get into the Texan pride thing of 'Remember the Alamo'. The mall was an okay shopping centre, except that it didn't have a book store. In fact the whole of downtown San Antonio didn't have a book store. What d...

When I looked in my guidebook for somewhere to visit in Mississippi nothing jumped out as obvious in the way that New Orleans, Miami and New York City do. But it made Natchez, the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi river, sound nice and one guy I spoke to in New Orleans said it was nice so that settled it. And the fact that it was only a five hour bus ride from New Orleans made it more attractive. Being a small town there was zero chance of there bei...