Road trip 2016

We are looking at doing a road trip this year and I am currently looking at this as an Agenda:

Day 1 Drive from Florida to New Orleans - looking at staying in the French Quarter for the afternoon and night, then looking to leave some time the following day.

Day 2 Drive from New Orleans to Graceland Memphis, stay over night.

Day 3 Take a trip around Graceland in the morning and in the afternoon head over to Nashville.

Day 4 Walk around Nashville.  I have these ideas for the day:

• Grand ole Oprey
• Lane Motor Museum
• The Johnny Cash Museum
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Willie Nelson and Friends Museum and General Store

In the evening drive to Gatlinburg.

Day 5 Visit Dollywood for the day and in the evening drive off to Blue Ridge Mountains and stay in a cabin.

Day 6 Visit a zipline, maybe Canopy Tours. Still staying in a log cabin.

Day 7 Drive back to Florida



Let me know of any ideas!!

Florida for Christmas 2014

We decided that we wanted to go to Florida for Christmas so decided on making this a road trip, it is 1166 miles to get to Orlando from where we live and the trip passes through, Texas, Louisianna, Missisippi, Alabama and Florida.

We departed December 19th at 14:00, we aimed to try and get to Pensacola for the first stop, but a traffic jam at Beaumont delayed us by two hours and in the end we only got as far as Baton Rouge, we stayed in a Hilton garden motel for night arriving at midnight.

Next morning we got up early and hit the road, on the journey we kept ourselves amuzed by looking for state line signs, tried to take photo's but where not very successfull, The Central Time/Eastern Time sign is in Florida and we managed to get a picture of that.

There really isn't much to see on the journey, especially the first day as most the driving was done in the dark, second day was a little better but once you hit Florida pan handle it gets pretty boring, up and down hill with trees either side!

 We finally arrived at the villa which we booked through Florida villa rentals. It was a 3 bedroom villa with a heated pool, which was a good choice as the water can be chilly in the winter, we even took our own christmas tree!

Lightening storm Austin

October 2nd and we had a quick lightening storm, pictures below:

Vegas Baby

Its August 2014 and we had a holiday booked to Pensacola Florida, that was until we realized that the weather forecast for the week was rain, rain and more rain, so we cancelled and looked for a new option.

Found a deal for the 4 of us to go the the MGM grand in Vegas with flights for 5 days, it seemed like a good idea so off we went.

 Yep thats a roller coaster on top of the building, Darcy wanted to go on it!

 Harley Davidson Cafe with a bike out the front

 Pictures above from the top of the Eiffel Tower, not the real one.

We decided to drive to the Grand Canyon, 4 hour drive there and 4 hours back again, trust us to pick a day when it is cloudy and you can see nothing!!

 This is really the Grand Canyon!!

Trip to Atlanta

I had to go to the OpenStack conference last April, was more interested in the surroundings than a techie conference.

Darcys art work

This is a selection of Darcy's art work.

Cedah moving on to high school

We are so pleased with both our children in the USA, they have adapted well and after a full year at school both have come out with some amazing grades, both came out with grades in the 90's and Darcy has moved into a pace maths group for next year ( Year 8 maths rather than year 7) and Cedah is doing Pre-AP Human Science, Biology and Spanish. Great work from both of them.

End of Year and Cedah has her graduation party.

Of course not to leave out my eldest, Jessica, she last year qualified as a Paediatric nurse from University and is now out in the real world working for a living :)