Mini road trip 2.0
- Nashville, Tennessee.
- Memphis, Tennessee.
- Dallas, Texas.
- Houston, Texas.
- New Orleans, Louisiana.
8 days today and I’ll be back in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mini road trip 2.0
8 days today and I’ll be back in Nashville, Tennessee.
After our 2016 American road trip from Boston to San Francisco we decided we just had to go back to the states. Only unlike last time we’re just visiting for 2 weeks and not going to anywhere near as many places as we did before. This time, we’re revisiting our favourites; Nashville and New Orleans (with a few new stops along the way).
I was atrocious at updating this while I was road tripping across America but honestly, I was just trying to enjoy my time there and only spent time on the Internet when I was adding occasional photos to our instagram have a look here if you want.
Basically, as the title says I now have the post travel blues.
Driving across America with my best friends was undoubtedly one of the best experiences of my life (despite the couple of hiccups we encountered at the beginning of our trip).
I’m still in total disbelief that we actually done it. We drove 5044 miles across America. We seen and done some amazing things, I think the best parts were definitely the beautiful sights I seen along the way.
Below is just one picture from every place we went.
Boston, MA.
Above is our (second) car. We called her Monique; there is a story behind why we called her this but I’ll save that for another time.
New York City, NY.
Obviously you all know where we are. Times square baby!
Washington, D.C.
Obviously we found ourselves visiting big Abe L.
Abingdon, VA.
Abingdon for us was just a stopover, Needless to say I didn’t get many pictures apart from this from our motel window.
Nashville, TN.
Are you from Tennessee? Cause you’re the only ‘ten I see’ .. Unbeknown to ourselves (until we stepped out a taxi in the main streets) we were in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival which did mean for us there was an epic crowd of people. We didn’t get to see too much as we were in 2 bars before my group of friends got absolutely steaming and I had to drag them home.
New Orleans, LA.
I completely fell in love with NOLA, and with the Frenchmen Art Gardens especially. What a beautifully magical place. The work from local artists is just something else, they’re all so very talented. We also found ourselves in Cats Meow on Bourbon St. Needless to say (being Scottish) we found ourselves singing 500 miles by the proclaimers on stage.. who doesn’t love karaoke?
Ennis, TX.
Ennis was a small town stopover for us, and we’re all so glad we did stop over with here. We popped into the taco bell before we left and the staff were so lovely! They had never met anyone from Scotland before and so asked to get a picture with us. Made us feel so so welcome.
Amarillo, TX.
Cadillac Ranch. I was really looking forward to going here, and I definitely had so much fun. Spray paint in hand it was fun leaving our mark here, at least for a little while.
Farmington, NM.
We just had a little overnight stop in Farmington so there aren’t many pictures.
Grand Canyon, AZ.
My fear of heights kept me well away from the edge but it meant I got to take beautiful pictures like this while we watched the sun set over the Grand Canyon. We stayed at the Yavapai Lodges, if you book early enough to stay here it’s work it. Such an incredibly beautiful place.
Las Vegas, NV.
When in Vegas.. it always lands on black.
Los Angeles, CA.
We got to spend a few days exploring this beautiful city, although I know I have to go back as there’s so much more for me still to see. We made sure to find a set of angels wings. Because who can leave LA the city of angels without becoming an angel?
San Simeon, CA.
Beautiful little place. We spent the previous night on the beach watching the sun set, drinking a cider and running into the sea.
San Francisco, CA.
Can you say you’ve been to San Fran if you didn’t go to Alcatraz? We went on the night tour and it was amazing seeing this place, hearing what things were like, learning more than we previously knew. We spent 3 hours in this place, on this island and it was eerie. I can’t imagine how it felt for the prisoners.
I had the trip of my life and I’ll be sharing more stories and pictures from our month long road trip in the future.
Have you been to any of these places? Are you going? Tell me your favourite parts or what you’re most looking forward to!
I just want to do it all over again.
As most of you will already know, I’m off on a road trip across America with 3 of my best friends in just a few weeks time. (If you don’t know about it basically the 4 of us are heading off to America at the end of May for a month. We’re driving from Boston to San Francisco and we’re all incredibly excited!).
4 travelling Scots take on America. The east coast, the west coast and everything in between.
This post is basically me just letting you all know that if you want to follow our journey, not just through my eyes but through my friends as well then feel free to follow our group instagram here.
If you don’t want to follow along, that’s all fine and dandy but I will have you know you’re going to miss some epic car videos of us pretending we’re various celebrities in music videos, loads of Scottish banter, plus many tourist pictures and some not so tourist pics.. Plus a lot more of course.
Don’t worry though if you decide not to give us a little follow, I will be trying my best to update here with new posts about how our trip is getting on as regularly as I can. Which should be easily enough done as a) I’m a complete night owl and b) when I’m in the car and not driving I won’t have much else to do.
If you’re going to decide to follow us on our instagram (@roadtrippin16x), I guess I better make a quick introduction for the other 3 girls!
From left to right we have; Clare, Shona, myself and Ellé.
You can also follow our personal Instagram accounts if you like.
Like I said, if you fancy seeing about our American adventure, then give our Instagram a follow.
We leave for our trip in 23 days, so look out for all our posts to come.
Thank you if you follow. Like I said, if you don’t I’ll try update here as much as I can so give me a follow here.
Leave me a comment if you’re going on or have been on a similar trip!
Exactly 6 months from today (30/05/16) I, along with 3 of my best friends, will be getting on a plane. Firstly travelling from Glasgow to Amsterdam and then a connecting flight over to Boston!
It’s starting to become really real. This is happening. Sometimes I forget all about it, because it’s something that’s been in the planning for over 2 years now. The trip sure has changed a lot I can tell you, it was crazy what my friend and I were planning to do at first.
Another road trip meeting will be happening soon, where my friends and I will discuss our next stops on our trip (having already discussed Boston and New York) it’s Washington D.C, Abingdon and Nashville next. We like to have a rough wee plan of all the things we want to do while still leaving plenty of time to be as spontaneous as we can and go with the flow everywhere also. I know the minute this is over I’m going to have to look into my next trip, which will hopefully be to Thailand for CampThailand.. But we will see!
Does anyone have any must do/see things for all our places?
Feel free to leave any tips or such. All thoughts are appreciated!
It’s official. My friends and I have finalised our plans for our American road trip and I am ecstatic of our plans!
Basically this is a basic itinerary of how we’ll be spending our time.
As you can all see, this is the outline of our trip and it’s one I cannot wait for.
Money isn’t an issue for us, so advice on must do/see things in each place is welcome. All our places are set in stone, along with the time scale. But please guys, we welcome any feedback or suggestions. They would be much appreciated.
Bring on 2016!!!!
It may be quite a while away but my friends and I are planning probably the most amazing trip of our lives, and it’s all planned out already.
2016 may seem quite far away but just look how quickly this year is passing, before we know it we’ll be in America having the time of our lives.
Basically we’re renting a car and driving from one side to the other. We’re planning on going to: Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Nashville, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Diego and San Francisco while hitting a few other places along the way.
We have a good idea of what we are wanting to do etc, but if anyone has any suggestions of must go places, must see things and must do things. Pretty pretty please, let me know.