the things that go through my head

Today was by far one of the best experiences of my life. I was able to see things in person that I’ve only seen in movies/TV or have read about. It was a surreal experience and I’m very grateful to have experienced it, there’s not really more to say; the pictures speak volumes. (Sorry Nikki Andrew wanted me to put up the last picture so please don’t be mad at me )

EDIT/UPDATE: I really didn’t understand the full potential of these pictures until i uploaded them from the computer and not the iPhone. For some reason when you upload them from the iPhone it shows a clickable picture on the blog but when you do that the larger version comes out very pixelated and that isn’t good when dealing with photography. IT DOESN’T DO THESE PHOTOS JUSTICE! So I will be gradually swapping them out with improved pictures! Upside, better looking pictures. Downside a lot more scrolling up and down the page. I’m going to try it out with a couple pictures here and posts from here on out.

-gerardo h.

Federal Reserve, Money; Get It?

As promised, these pictures are from our arrival into Tennessee and eventually into Memphis where we stopped at Graceland and took a look at Elvis’ cars. For dinner we stopped by Corky’s because we’ve seen it on the travel channel and wanted to see it if lives up to the hype; it did!

Oh and the lightning and thunder is right after the cars before dinner  and some potential Halloween costumes!

We have driven across the entire state of Tennessee into beautiful Virginia or atleast what we were able to see of it (We got in after sundown) and have arrived at probably the nicest looking KOA located in Wytheville, Virginia. I know I said that we were going to be stoping in Hershey, Pennsylvania today; well I was mistaken. We will be heading out of Virginia tomorrow morning and will be driving to Washington D.C.

From there we will be heading to Pennsylvania and then hopefully New York. Plans have been changing to accommodate the drive back home, so we might not have time to stop in planned places.

We didn’t stop for anything other than gas and rest stops but I do have some pictures I’ll be posting later today from yesterday.

Today we have been in four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

We stoped at Graceland, home of the late Elvis Presley and took a tour of his vehicle collection (pictures will come soon, too sleepy to upload them now). We ate dinner at Corky’s Ribs & BBQ, it was very delicious and they ship food all over the States!!! We are now at the KOA in West Memphis, Arkansas and are doing laundry.

Off to Hershey, Pennsylvania in the morning to see how chocolate is born!

Here are some pictures that Andrew took of the Super Dome in Downtown, some more swamps, Lake Charles and driving on water.

So we stayed in New Orleans for the night, Bug Capitol of the States. One of the guys that worked at the campgrounds apparently lived in the Anaheim/Disneyland area 14 years ago and said that he was suprised by all the “alien” looking bugs when he made the move out here. Lets just say we kind of didn’t want to get out of the RV!

We woke up around 7AM and got ready to go on swamp tour. One where you go on a fan powered raft/boat and they take you around looking at crocodilian, more bugs and whatever else that you can find in a swamp, sounds exciting right? Well, we got there at 9AM in time for their first tour only to find out they were starting at 12PM today

There was really nothing to do for three hours so we just decided to make our way to Memphis Tennessee and of course, we had to pass through beautiful Mississippi first and here is a little from that.

Mississippi has some of the greenest freeways I’ve ever seen, very relaxing. And finally making an appearance for the first time on the blog Nikki, Andrew, and I (and no suprise, Andrew and I getting ready to fight).

So we drove into downtown passing the Super Dome (doesn’t look that super) and were able to find parking for the RV only a couple blocks from Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. (And yes mom I got you a postcard and should be on it’s way to you )

Bourbon street wasn’t really what I expected it to be, it seemed as though it was beautiful at one time in history but has since lost it’s glamour. It was still a very cool place to see and the Cajun food wasn’t bad either; on to Memphis.

So today was a very eventful day, a change from the past couple desert filled days. The heat has now been replaced with humidity. Its been raining the past couple days and luckily we missed it; there are still plenty clouds though. I drove the RV today, it was quite a feat with the wind and all. I drove the better part of Baton Rouge to New Orleans and it was by far the most beautiful part of the drive as of yet.

I wasn’t able to get to many pictures but Andrew and Nikki did so I’ll hopefully be posting those later.

Another night gone by in Texas, by this time tomorrow we’ll be in New Orleans. Note to self don’t walk around with a Lakers towel in a Rockets city. And for some reason I don’t trust seafood from a drive thru.

So we made it past San Antonio as of 8PM and are heading to Houston. The only thing we stoped for other than gas and a handful of rest stops was a San Antonio McDonalds and to no one’s suprise it wasn’t any different than the ones back home. So we are getting that much closer to the one place we all seem very excited to see, New Orleans. I’m really looking forward to eating some Cajun food.