Wildfires, extreme temperatures, museums good & average, hotel breakfast bars, landscapes, zoos, gunfights, miles of straight roads and a variety of new tastes
A great three weeks but now ready for home. Shame we lose a day on the way.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
2829 km
Denver Dodge Ponca Fort Smith Little Rock Memphis Nashville Huntsville Atlanta Athens
Wildfires, extreme temperatures, museums good & average, hotel breakfast bars, landscapes, zoos, gunfights, miles of straight roads and a variety of new tastes
A great three weeks but now ready for home. Shame we lose a day on the way.
Wildfires, extreme temperatures, museums good & average, hotel breakfast bars, landscapes, zoos, gunfights, miles of straight roads and a variety of new tastes
A great three weeks but now ready for home. Shame we lose a day on the way.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Atlanta- home to two international icons
CNN headquarter tours & Coca Cola "museum" within two blocks of each other. These are two extremely slick visitor operations, great experience even though you are part of an entertainment/marketing sausage machine.
NZ CocaCola artwork has pride of place in the entrance foyer.
CNN Worldwide mug for sale has most of SE Asia / Australasia missing on its map :-) & NZ flag has white stars with red borders - think they may have mixed up OZ & NZ :-)
NZ CocaCola artwork has pride of place in the entrance foyer.
CNN Worldwide mug for sale has most of SE Asia / Australasia missing on its map :-) & NZ flag has white stars with red borders - think they may have mixed up OZ & NZ :-)
Sunday, July 8, 2012
NASA USSR Centre
Some one did not check the how the US Space and Rocket Centre would look as an abbreviation :-)
This is a centre which needs the guiding hand of a really good museum curator, lots of potentially interesting material but a lack of good story telling.
Though out of place, the Apache helicopter simulator was great fun & trying to control the final burn stage of the Apollo rocket was challenging.
This is a centre which needs the guiding hand of a really good museum curator, lots of potentially interesting material but a lack of good story telling.
Though out of place, the Apache helicopter simulator was great fun & trying to control the final burn stage of the Apollo rocket was challenging.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Nashville
Trip Advisor recommended Country Music Hall of Fame as top visitors site in Nashville. Who are we to argue.
Banjos, steel guitars, embroidered shirts, Elvis's car with Gold (yes real gold not plate) fixtures. Bluegrass, rockabilly, pop country crossover, who knew the variety.
See y'all later
Banjos, steel guitars, embroidered shirts, Elvis's car with Gold (yes real gold not plate) fixtures. Bluegrass, rockabilly, pop country crossover, who knew the variety.
See y'all later
Friday, July 6, 2012
Too much to write about
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis addresses all aspects of the civil rights movement in the US and is the site of the assassination of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jn.
It does a great job of documenting this period of recent history, but too much to summarise here.
No photos from within museum, just did not seem appropriate.
Really strange to see the motel as it was familiar from long forgotten TV news footage at the time in '68
Memphis busy on a Friday night especially with a game against the current world champions The Cardinals
It does a great job of documenting this period of recent history, but too much to summarise here.
No photos from within museum, just did not seem appropriate.
Really strange to see the motel as it was familiar from long forgotten TV news footage at the time in '68
Memphis busy on a Friday night especially with a game against the current world champions The Cardinals
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)