We headed west to San Antonio. Before having a proper look around, we decided to get some 90 minute massages when saw an offer at a Chinese massage place just after seeing these: To give them some perspective, those are…
Day 88: Houston, Texas
We headed toward Houston when we finally heard back from the social security office in Minnesota. She was actually just calling for an update. Chris informed her about the arrival of his green card and she said he needed to…
Day 87: Into Texas
We spent the whole morning in the hotel editing, blogging and swimming just because it was so nice compared to most places we’ve been recently and we wanted to spend more time in comfort and relative luxury. The breakfast was…
Day 86: Lafayette, Louisiana
As our hotel was amazing, we spent the morning there swimming, blogging and doing laundry. The staff were so friendly and lovely that a) we got a 20 dollar discount on the price for booking another night and b) they…
Day 85: New Orleans, Louisiana
We had rarely been so happy to enter a new state. Despite the day before being just awful, we were hopeful about Louisiana. We spoke to the woman at the welcome center alone more than anyone in the previous state.…
Day 84: Mississippi
We entered Mississippi first thing in the morning. It was a gloriously sunny day. Almost as soon as we got in, we saw a burning field. Mississippi was so empty. Chris commented several times there that it felt the most…
Day 83: Arkansas
We headed into rural Arkansas to meet some people who weren’t truckers. We are so clearly on a major truck route at the moment, it’s been hard, but we did find a few in the town of Biscoe: We went…
Day 82: Memphis, Tennessee
We left our not so stellar motel in Dickson (the guy next door smoked and drank in his doorway most of the night while listening to horrible music) and had a look at Memphis, Tennessee. I was keen to find…
Day 81: Nashville, Tennessee
We crossed into Tennessee from Alabama almost immediately as Huntsville is right on the border. Something that is even more right on the border is a small town called Ardmore where one side of the street is Alabama and the…
Day 80: Huntsville i.e. Rocket City, Alabama
Something I didn’t know about Alabama till this trip is that they make rockets. Florida and Texas get most of the press being the launch site and the ground control, but Huntsville, Alabama has made rockets and continues to be…