Evening 2 in Austin
2024年8月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
This evening I decided to see what the famed Austin nightlife is all about, and fair to say it was very good! The roads were closed off to allow the pedestrians to roam free and all of the differentもっと詳しく
Heading into Dallas
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
This morning I woke up in Dallas! Set for another toasty day I headed out relatively early to ensure I could take plenty of pit stops throughout the day. First of all stopping at a nearby park to chatもっと詳しく
Central Dallas
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
My first stop in the city centre was in the Arts District, it had a few nice squares and buildings, as well as a hug sculpture of an eye!
Old City Park
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
From the centre I headed east towards the oldest part of Dallas. This included the Old City Park which contains some of Dallas' oldest buildings. Despite it being a Sunday there was strangelyもっと詳しく
Random Dallas
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 39 °C
As I headed from the east towards the west I passed by a huge bowler hat, the city hall, a load of charging bulls and the JFK memorial.
Dealey Plaza & JFK
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 40 °C
X marks the spot! This historic square where Dallas was founded was also the location of JFK's assassination in 1963. The exact location where he was hit by the bullets are marked in the road. Theもっと詳しく
Trinity Overlook Park
2024年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 40 °C
This was probably my only mistake of the day having managed the heat well so far. I crossed under the bridges to this park only to discover it has absolutely zero trees or shade. Good job it was onlyもっと詳しく
Highland Park
2024年8月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
This morning I headed for a wander through the Highland Park neighbourhood, said to be one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the whole country and home to many billionaires including Dallas Cowboysもっと詳しく
The Statue House
2024年8月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
One of the stand out estates in Highland Park is owned by a family who made their fortune in real estate. They donated a public teddy bear garden next to their house and have filled their garden withもっと詳しく
Dallas > New Orleans
2024年8月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
I headed back from Highland Park via the Katy Trail (which reminded me of the High Line in NYC) and across Turtle Creek. I then made my way to the airport via bus and tram and managed to secure aもっと詳しく
Bourbon Street
2024年8月19日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
After arriving and checking in to New Orleans I thought I'd take a quick wander down the nearby Bourbon Street, one of the most famous streets for nightlife in all of the US! It was fair quiet as itもっと詳しく
Metairie and Greenwood Cemetaries
2024年8月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
A somewhat strange way to start my time in New Orleans but I headed to one of the furthest spots from the centre at these two cemeteries! New Orleans has not been treated well over the years byもっと詳しく
City Park
2024年8月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
After a fair dose of cemeteries I headed over to the City Park. Here I had a wandered around the sculpture gallery and tried New Orleans famous 'beignets' which I think it's fair to say made a mess.
St Louis Cemetery No. 3
2024年8月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
As if two cemeteries weren't enough I then paid a visit to a 3rd, this was after watching the first half of the Tranmere game, says a lot. I'd found a self guided walking tour for this one whichもっと詳しく
Garden Quarter
2024年8月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Next up was the garden quarter, which must be the most affluent part of New Orleans. It features the houses from American Horror Story and Benjamin Button (not that I've seen either) as well as oneもっと詳しく
Evening Out in New Orleans
2024年8月20日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
This evening I headed back towards Bourbon Street to pay a visit to some of the places I'd Scouted out the night before.
First up I headed to a restaurant for a Gumbo (like rice, chicken, chorizo andもっと詳しく
French Quarter Walking Tour
2024年8月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
By far and away the most popular part of New Orleans is the French Quarter, filled with narrow streets and colourful cast iron buildings. We were told much about the beginnings of New Orleans and it'sもっと詳しく
Louis Armstrong Park & French Quarter
2024年8月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
The walking tour ended at Louis Armstrong park, the NO born and raised jazz superstar. From here I wandered up and down grid of the French Quarter enjoying the architecture, charachter and shade!
New Orleans > Chicago
2024年8月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
This evening I took the 2.5 hour flight from New Orleans to my penultimate stop on the trip (and final new destination), Chicago!!!
First it was a bus to none other than Louis Armstrong Airportもっと詳しく
Chicago Promenade
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
This morning I work up at my Couchsurfing spot to the most spectacular view over Lake Michigan from the 33rd floor! I then took the train towards the city centre. I thought the train was included inもっと詳しく
Chicago Riverwalk
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The more I walked along the coastal paths of the river the more I realised its my kind of town Chicago is. I cut inland along the river walk, before crossing over to the other side to head backもっと詳しく
Navy Pier
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
From the riverwalk I headed along the pier and back again. At the tip were r perfectly lined up policemen on bikes with many star spangledpangled banners in the background. Funnily this was entirelyもっと詳しく
Downtown Chicago
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
From the promenade I cut into the city centre, first heading down the 'magnificent mile', lined wall to wall in high end shops. It was here when I really started to notice the presence of the DNC (asもっと詳しく
Lou Malnati's Pizza
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
When in Rome (Chicago) you can't not try a deep dish pizza. So I had to try one of the most famous at Lou Malnati's. The pizza I received was unexpectedly small, but it was delicious as with tomatoもっと詳しく
Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Full of pizza I headed back towards the lake edge for sunset, only to realise I'd gotten Chicago upside down and the sunset was actually behind all the sky scrapers rather than over the lake. Eitherもっと詳しく
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