This 27 Day cross country Road Trip starts as soon as we get off the Cruise ship on the 7th December. We head over to Naples for a few days rest and then drive over to Las Vegas for New Years Eve, stopping off at unknown places along the way, Christmas will be spent in Sedona. Cant wait.
So Good morning everyone and welcome to our next phase and new trip across America by car, it all started when we got off the cruise ship this morning and said goodbye to our family and got a mini bus to the car rental terminal at the airport or so we thought we ended up at the cruise port terminal and the problems started as we had pre ordered a standard SUV they stated that they only had cars, so we really didn’t have a choice and took the car…
Read MoreToday we have a full day in Naples but I am afraid not a lot to report today apart from our room is great and the resort is lovely we seriously recommend this place. Today was going to be all about the Pool and Beach BUT we had a major issue with a client this morning, we sold an apartment to a client and the keys were not left by the previous owner so we spent most of the day chasing around trying to resolve this problem, also we had…
Read MoreWe got up this morning with the intension of having a full day around the pool and some time on the beach BUT, as luck would have it the weather was not on our side and looked like it was going to rain, so despite this we still headed to Naples Beach with some towels and the car nearby just in case to see if we could get some rays. We managed to stay for about an hour and watched the wind surfers but the clouds got darker and we…
Read More600 Miles driven today. So today is actually the start to our road trip as its Day 1 and we are leaving from our sunny West Coast location of Naples Florida to a unknown location/weather, this morning it was cloudy but still in the low 70’s so we were dressed in shorts and hit the road at around 9:15am we did have to stop off at Fort Myers airport to drop off the car (again). We got to the the Dollar Car Rental drop off point some 30 minutes after…
Read MoreTo skip the band move to 5:40 on the video. 243 Miles travelled today. Got up this morning at 8am which is really 9am for us but never mind wanted to get to New Orleans as soon as we could but first we had to find some warm clothing yesterday was a joke especially for me as I don’t have a sweater or anything long sleeved, so we punched in “Ross Dress For Less” into the GPS and was on our way at about 9am, OMG what a pile of…
Read More380 Miles driven today. This morning we were very happy to be leaving New Orleans, its such a shame as we really had a good night last night but the city is in a desperate state and that combined with all the work on Bourbon Street made for a noisy early rise to the day. I doubt we will be back but thanks as we did have a great time. OK so we checked out and was on the road by about 10am our car turned up outside the hotels…
Read MoreThis morning we woke up quite late having had the best sleep ever, this was helped by the large amount of drinks and total peace and quiet and a super comfortable King bed. Today we were going to have a blast, quite literally, last night in the hot tub we talked about shooting some of the guns we were shown yesterday in JJ’s Gun safe and after a full breakfast we packed away enough hardware to take on a small army and got in the truck and drove about 45…
Read MoreSo today we say goodbye to Brandon and JJ and head north towards Dallas we had another awesome sleep and in fact we didn’t leave until gone midday, the guys were also heading up towards Waco for a wedding. Today was not going to be anything special and if possible would have us stopping in Dallas. It would be about a 4 hour drive and I was knackered, so with about 90 minutes left we stopped and Lorna took over and drove us into a Hotel in Dallas. We stayed…
Read MoreThis morning was not such a great start to the day we were both very tired because last night at around midnight we had to change rooms, the hotel was a stones throw form the interstate and the noise was so bad, so we moved to a slightly better room and tried to sleep. We packed our cases into the SUV and set our first port of call to Nordstrom Rack so Lorna could get a jacket, temps were dropping but today the sun was shining and we were now…
Read MoreWe had a good nights sleep last night finally, and we promised ourselves another good one tonight so we were going to make sure we stayed in a nice hotel nowhere near main roads. But that comes later. This morning we had a light breakfast and packed the car again ready for our departure at about 10:30am. This morning we are heading in the general direction of Colorado Springs but will not get there today and maybe not even tomorrow so we will stop off at Amarillo Texas, not sure…
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