As soon as we arrived in New Orleans, you could tell you were below sea level; water was everywhere. For the first 2 nights we stayed about 4 miles outside the French Quarter but we didn't have to drive in as the park provided free shuttle drop off and pick up. We spent the first day checking out the city and going to the National World War 2 Museum situated in the centre (I almost spelt that "center"...oh dear) of New Orleans. Cory and I both agreed that it was one of the best museums we've ever been to - probably due to the fact it had a lot of information on the D-Day landings in Normandy. Obviously it focused mainly on America's contribution to the war but was still really informative. The museum had a small cinema where we watched 2 documentaries on the Second World War - one of them was made by Senor Spielbergo, which was brilliant.
The next we moved to a park 1 block away from the French Quarter. This walkable distance allowed us to go out and experience the night life that NO had to offer... We both woke up with killer hangovers the next day as we got absolutely gatted the previous night -
We had to drive to Memphis the day after we got sozzled, needless to say, this was an unpleasant experience.
The main reason for us traveling to Memphis was to visit Graceland, home of "The King" The King being Elvis Presley (Not Eric Cantona, as I was led to believe).
It was amazing, truly exceptional. Neither of us are big Elvis fans but we were still blown away by everything he'd accomplished in his life.
After Graceland we started the drive towards St Louis, we stopped about halfway between Memphis and St Louis to spend a couple of nights relaxing!! Our main reason for going to St Louis was to watch Blink 182 but due to unforeseen circumstances, they rescheduled the show to the 29 Sept, which is useless to us as we'll be back in the UK by then. This was really annoying but could have been worse had we not already got tickets to see them in LA the week before we leave.
We still went to St Louis as we had tour of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery scheduled for today. The tour itself was called the Beermasters Tour. The tour lasted about 2 hours and covered most of the brewery, we went behind the scenes of the bottling plant and the brewing house. The tour guide took us through the history of the plant and showed us how the beer is made, packaged and distributed across the globe. See the bottling line was especially interesting, it was just like you see them in the movies. We also got a lot of free samples which was awesome and also a couple of souvenirs, like a free Bud glass and various other things.
After the brewery we drove west out of St Louis before settling in a RV Park in Bowling Green, MO. Tomorrow we head to Kansas City! We've only got 3 weeks to go but as those 3 weeks include a trip to Vegas, we can't be too downhearted!
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