BRUNO
MICHEL Country Music Journalist
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1996 from Los Angeles, CA to Miami, FL |
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again traveling across eight states: California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida |
The whole adventure started with a 12-hour delay of the flight from Zurich. We finally arrived at 1.30 a.m. in San Francisco.
At
the bottom of Lombard Street it broke down with electrical damage.
The Rental company arrived with a spare car, but the trunk was too small for all our luggage. So we hiked to SFO and changed the car once more.
Enjoyed
the shops in town and dined at Bodie
Mike's Barbeque
before
we went on to Palm
Springs This retreat of celebrities is quite dead in summertime.It's simply too hot to stay out there. However, you can get very favorable rates in the great hotels in town.
Into
Arizona, we visited Quartzsite
Tucson.
Some great spots to eat. Our favorite was the Silver
Saddle Steakhouse.
Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum, where the people are behind fences
whilst Gleeson, AZ and Steins, NM are ghost towns but still worth
a visit. It was also the time of our first visit to Texas, where friends of ours had recently bought some land. So we crossed the border to Texas, arriving in
The
next day it was a 650-mile trip to Gatesville,
to see our friends.
There, the Space
Center is a must. Not only for children.
New Orleans was worth some days
of our holiday.
If you plan a swamp tour, don't get fooled by some tour operators close to New Orleans. They might well drive you along the old trade-waterways pretending that this is the swamp.
A good address is Cajun
Jack. His swamp tours are fun.
The Battleship
Memorial Park in Mobile, AL, was an interesting experience.
We then entered Florida, our last state on this vacation, where we
or the Florida
Aquarium in Tampa.
On our way to the Everglades
we took an
And finally, we drove US 1 down to
After a ride on the Conch
Tour Train
The next day it was back to Miami for our flight home. |