We are currently stuck in traffic somewhere on the way to Memphis, we still have a little over 3 hours to drive and it’s already 7pm, so I thought I might as well open the laptop and start the blog in the car. We could have got to Memphis earlier this afternoon but we decided to spend a few hours this morning looking around the Texas town of Fort Worth.
We made the most of our few hours there, Oli rode a bucking bronco (yes of course he fell off!), we popped in a few shops where I bought a Texas t-shirt and we watched the cattle parade! At 11:30am and 4pm everyday there is a parade of longhorn cattle which are marched down Exchange Avenue to recreate to tourists the cattle drives which made the country’s largest livestock markets after the Civil War.
We had lunch in Ricksy’s, a typical Texas rib house. Over the last few days I found myself subconsciously ordering vegetarian meals, such as mushroom fajitas and vegetable skewers – this must be because I knew there would be tonnes of meat in Texas, this is no place to be a vegetarian!
After our early lunch we popped into “Billy Bob’s Texas” which is said to be the largest nightclub in the world! It was massive inside (just $2 per person entry during the day), it’s nothing like the posy pulling nightclubs in London, this place was like a fun land, it had a few different dance floors, around 42 bar areas, stages for celebrity artists to perform on, places to eat, a pool room, live bull riding demonstration/competitions arena, shops, amusements and more – this is my kind of nightclub, fun, fun, funJ
Back on the road we passed through Dallas, a huge built up city and then a couple of hours later we got to Texarkana – never heard of this place before but it’s a city that sits on the border of the states of Texas and Arkansas (hence the name!).
We even found the exact spot where both states meet, there is an actual building (the post office) that sits exactly on the border making it the only building in the US where two different states divide the one structure.Been sitting in this traffic for 30 minutes now….getting bored and can’t see anything as stuck behind a huge whopping truck!! Okay gross fact, in yesterday’s blog I said how I was using my tweezers to pull out hairs on my legs to keep me occupied during our 9 hour drive. Well the lady in the car opposite us is using tweezers to pluck her chin and neck hair – think I’m going to throw up – yuck!!!
So Oli just got out the car to chat to some people to see if he can find out what’s going on…..okay so apparently there’s a crash about 12 miles ahead and there’s a diversion – it isn’t for another 6 miles and we’ve now been crawling like a snail for an hour and only travelled a mile….not sure we’re gonna be “walking in Memphis” tonight folks!
It’s now 12:30am and because of the 3 hour jam we are still in the car driving to Memphis, ETA 1:45am – darn it! Oli had the biggest sized caramel coffee the last gas station offered and insists he feels okay to drive….I’m being helpful by talking non-stop so he doesn’t fall asleep, we’ve sung “Walking in Memphis” at least 15 times in the last two hours!!! I’ve just called up a hotel called the Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel to book us a room for next two nights, we have the “King” suite – I joked on the phone “is that the real King’s suite”, they didn’t get me and just said in a dry southern voice “no ma’am that’s just what we call the rooms”!!!
I’m v excited for tomorrow as we’ll be visiting Graceland and Elvis’ tomb (excited wrong word for that but you know what I mean)!
Hours sat in traffic jam 3, hours spent in car 11, miles travel to date 2,800!!
J&O
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