BUS TO MEMPHIS and onwards..to NASHVILLE

Day 235 - 236

Nashville, Tennesee, USA

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JJ!!!!! Hope you had the most perfect day..we were thinking of you and loved your text message! Love you heaps, Aunty Jen & Uncle Greg xxx
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Hi guys!

We caught the bus to Memphis last night...and what a long trip it was!! We felt the part that's for sure...smelly, ugly and downright homeless...

Cos..we were of no fixed address and slept on the bus. It was so much cheaper....$75 to get here on the bus as opposed to $550 by plane!!!!

The bus left at 9.30pm and arrived in Memphis at 6am. We tried to sleep..and to be honest, i think i had more success than Greg cos i have a neck pillow and he insists it hurts his neck more than it allows him to sleep. Personally, i would never travel anywhere without mine! And no joke, because Greg's not using his, I'm using his as well as mine.....i just can't work out how on earth he can sleep with his head held up??

Consequently.....we arrived in Memphis...tired, even more smelly, but in one piece...we did wonder, there were some unsavouries on the bus, one that got kicked off..and one that had so much blood on his shirt and a black eye..that i wish he was kicked off the bus!

WHen we arrived..at 6am..it was still dark...and we didn't want to roam the streets to find accomodation...and just as we were trying to establish what to do...we heard the man on the loud speaker say there was a bus going to Nashville...

And since we were going there anyway..we thought we may as well head on there..and then come back to Memphis! So...we got a round trip and here we are! Nashville!!

And it's so cool.

This is the place where all the country music originated....and it feels like it too...musical and hip hoppy. We're going to check more out with the music scene later tonight...and over the next couple of days we'll go to the Country Music Hall of Fame..

Artists like Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, (remember the movie "Walk The Line"), Paul McCartney, Willy Nelson and of course Elvis performed here...

But! Best of all..and real Tennessee stuff....Tomorrow! We're off to Jack Daniels country............Greg's favourite friend of all time!!! We'll have a whiskey for all those "Jacks" lovers out there!

See you if we're still in one piece after we get back from Lynchburg! haha

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NB It's weird how the rest rooms have directions written in English and Spanish..we're thinking there must be a HUGE Spanish population in the US...one thing is for sure..we find it hard to understand a lot of the "American" (African American) we hear here...and are left, for the most part, quite like feeling we're in Timbuktu sometimes!!!