Nick's USA Trip
In and around United States
Apart from travelling to broaden my horizons, the main reason for this trip is to catch up with buddies both American and Australian flung all across the USA and hopefully make many new friends as well! Although I have been to some parts of the USA before, most of the places I am visiting this time will be new to me. Hopefully by having friends in every city I go to I will be able to see the best of what these places have to offer and not just do all the usual "touristy" things.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Nick Hurley
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Getting to Nashville
Yesterday after almost 30 hours traveling, my flight finally arrived in Nashville. Getting here was certainly a lot more difficult and time consuming... Continue reading » -
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Finding my way in Jackson
I arrived in Jackson about 9PM with the temperature being about 0 Celsius. I had no map of Jackson only the address of Michael’s host family’s hous... Continue reading »
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Memphis
Today, we decided to head across to Memphis which is only about 90 Miles from Jackson. Once again driving there was an absolute breeze with excelle... Continue reading »
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Sunday in Jackson
As all good people start their Sunday in Tennessee, I went to church. We went to the Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson. Tommy, Michael’s host Dad re... Continue reading » -
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Classic Red-Neck Southern Pub
After going to the military park, we were hungry and found a hotel along the road on the way back to Jackson. Walking in was like a one of those momen... Continue reading » -
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Shiloh National Military Park (Civil War Battle Ground)
Today Sean, Michael and I went to the Shiloh Military Park. It was really fascinating visiting this expansive park. It was the site of a a couple of c... Continue reading » -
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Pinson Mounds Indian Sacred Site
Today Michael, Sean and I went to Pinson Mounds. They are a series of large earth mounds built by Native Indians in around 2000 years ago. Theory h... Continue reading » -
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Chicago
I flew into O’Hare (Chicago) over three hours late. O’Hare is one of the busiest airports in the world (due to its central location in North Americ... Continue reading »
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The O.C.
My flight was an to Orange County was an hour late because there was a racoon on the runway in Chicago and we couldn’t leave until it was either... Continue reading »
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Los Angeles and UCLA
It was awesome meeting up with some of my old mates at UCLA. I caught up with Jacob who I hadn’t seen since September when he left Australia. Lee... Continue reading »
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Magic Mountain and Santa Barbara
Sunday Jacob, Hadi and I said goodbye to my LA friends and went to LAX to pick up our rental car and headed north and hour to Six Flags Magic Mount... Continue reading »
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Pacific Coast Highway
The next day we went back to Budget rental car to get a new car. The Pontiac Grand Prix we had was teriffic, it had seat warmers, electric everythi... Continue reading »
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Silicon Valley
We didn't get to see all of the PCH because we had to make it to Palo Alto (a suburb of San Francisco) in time for the dinner Peter's Mom had kindl... Continue reading »
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San Francisco
After seeing enough of silicon valley, we spent a few days looking around San Francisco. The funnest thing we did was to go on a Segway tour. Segwa... Continue reading »
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Miami and Florida Everglades
We arrived into Fort Lauderdale (near Miami) early in the morning. But it was already hot and sticky. The temp was around 28. Being so far south, t... Continue reading »
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NASA Kennedy Space Center
A couple of hours east of Orlando on the Atlantic ocean is Cape Canaveral. It is home to a massive air force base and missile range, but what it is... Continue reading »
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Disneyworld, Florida
By this stage on the trip we were pretty tired and slept in to the point where we didn't make to Disney world in Orlando until 5PM. Like everything... Continue reading »
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New York
We flew into LaGuardia domestic airport which is probably the closest airport to Manhattan. We caught the subway system to Jacob’s uncle Hank and h... Continue reading »
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