Southern States Tour, 2012.
These articles are all about the escorted tour of the Southern states of America I did in 2012 with my Uncle Dave. The articles are about the places we stayed, the things we did, and the places we visited. We flew into Los Angeles in California and travelled by coach eastwards across the southern states of America. We went through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. After we finished the escorted tour, we flew to New York and spent a few days there before returning to England.
I took my Uncle Dave with me to America in 2012. This would be his first visit to most of the places we would visit. The tour started with a few nights at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
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I went to Mission San Juan Capistrano with my mum and dad as a teenager, and I loved the gardens and the bells on the walls.
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We didn't spend much time at the San Diego Zoo, and for that, I was grateful. At the time of our visit, the zoo looked very old and, in my opinion, needed to be closed.
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We didn't have very long at Carlsbad Caverns, but I did manage to get to the bottom of the main cave and back up.
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I didn't know what to expect at the Yuma Territorial Prison, but I found the tour very interesting and informative.
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I liked the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum and was disappointed we didn't have more time to spend there.
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I enjoyed walking around the San Xavier del Bac Mission and its grounds; it was very interesting.
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While in Tombstone, Arizona, I visited Boothill Graveyard and the OK Corral.
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The White Sands National Monument is in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. It is known for its dramatic landscape of rare white gypsum dunes.
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I had visited the Cape Kennedy Space Centre in Florida many times, but this was my first trip to the Houston Space Centre. Although there is more to see at the Kennedy Space Centre, I preferred seeing the command centre in Houston.
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I thought The Alamo was a fantastic place and would have liked to have spent more time there.
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We stayed at Galveston Island for a few nights on our way through Texas, and I enjoyed my stay there.
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I toured New Orleans on various sightseeing trips, including a coach tour, a Segway tour, and just walking around with my Uncle Dave.
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We toured around the swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin on a small boat made for about 2 dozen people. We saw hundreds of alligators our tour guide threw food to, getting them to come closer for our photos.
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I went to Atlanta, Georgia, as part of my Southern States tour in 2012. As well as looking at many of the large homes in Atlanta, we also visited the CNN Centre and the Martin Luther King Memorial Visitor Centre.
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Jekyll Island was beautiful, and if I ever win the lottery, I may buy a home there. The homes are all built on large plots of land and have beautiful, lush green surroundings. The beach was beautiful, and I enjoyed watching the deer playing in the dunes as I went for a sunrise swim in the Atlantic.
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We stayed in Savannah for two nights. After we took a guided tour of Savannah in an electric tram, I went on a Segway tour of the Historic District and walked around the River Street area.
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When I booked my Southern States trip, I added an extra few days to the tour to spend a few days looking around New York before flying home.
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