Cheers man. Yeah once in texas... I'll be flying to San Diego... so basically now, looking at weeks 1/2/3 over tenessee/mississippi/texas... then weeks 4/5/6 over california way... but will be highing a nice big fat car. So, any good places over way and yeah just let me know as starting to build the trip now... so imagine me landing in nashville... I've got three weeks of adventures before landing in say Dallas then for a flight to San diego!
Bear in mine, I wanna see real america as well, not sure the cities... and I do love mountains and great scenary so... anything you reccomend would be good!
Sounds like a good plan. In terms of recommendations, I think I might have posted this before, but anyway, here are my favourite places.
San Antonio:
River Walk and the Alamo are worth seeing, but that's about it. I wouldn't spend more than a couple of days there personally. It's worth remembering that you generally can't leave your car overnight on street parking, so make sure your hotel includes parking in the price. A lot of them don't, and ask for a ludicrous sum of money for it as they know you don't have any other option.
In terms of eating in San Antonio, there used to be a really nice restaurant called Bella on Houston but I think it's closed now unfortunately. There are a lot of great restaurants and bars on the river walk, but you'll pay top money for them.
Austin:
Pretty much the standard stuff like you'll find on Tripadvisor really: it's a nice town to walk around, and there's a lot of nice bars in the centre. Circuit of the Americas is well worth a visit.
New Orleans:
Willie Mae's is a must if you like fried chicken, although it's hugely popular so you need to get there early. The Carousel Bar is amazing, albeit a bit touristy, and there's quite a few jazz bars / old style pubs that around the French Quarter. It's generally just a great place to walk around. The Gumbo Shop does really good Gumbo, which is a traditional dish from there, so well worth trying.
They have a lot of old style trams which can be fun to take a ride on, particularly after a few drinks. I'm not massively into museums / history etc, but there's a lot of historical sites in the city, and outside there's swaps / old plantations etc you can visit.
Nashville:
You can walk down Broadway / Music Row / Arts District etc - loads of great bars with live music, especially at night. The city is also pretty much surrounded by forests / rivers etc, so it's definitely worth exploring outside a bit. IIRC there's quite a few nice places to stop between Nashville and Memphis, plus Lynchburg to the south which I've never visited but can imagine is probably worth it if you're in that part of the world anyway.
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