I've been extremely lucky with the travelling I have been able to do, I have had the usual girls trips to Spain but my favourite places by far have been in America. My first trip to the states was September 2008 and I travelled to New York with 3 of my friends. I instantly fell in love with the city and the lifestyle that came along with it.
New York was somewhere I knew I definitely needed to visit again and I managed to do just that a few years later in May 2011. I actually did Trek America with my best friend and we planned to start and finish in the big apple.
We did the freedom trail which saw us travel to some other amazing places- Washington DC, Bear County, Niagara Falls, Berkshire Forest and Boston. It was a pretty amazing experience and we camped for the week well apart from in Boston where we stayed in a hostel as there was no camp site. As well as visiting other cities and places I also got the chance to become friends with people from around the world, on our trek we had people from the UK, Australia, Germany and Korea. It really was an experience I will never forget.
Not long after we got back from this holiday we decided that we should go back and do our own trek. Me, my best friend and one of my other good friends started to plan what and where we should go. We decided that we would again start and finish in New York, that we would use different methods of transport to get around and decided on Chicago, Memphis and Nashville as the other places we would like to see. I have so many amazing memories from all of my holidays and adventures but this one has to be at the very top. We travelled to New York and stayed in Queens overnight before heading into the city to travel to Chicago via Amtrak the journey took us 20+ hours and we slept on the train overnight which was an experience in itself!
We spent a day in Chicago before getting back on the Amtrak to travel to Memphis.
From Memphis we took the Greyhound bus to Nashville. In Nashville we also Hired a car so we could explore a little, we drove to the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg as well as travelling to the local shopping mall for a little retail therapy.
From Nashville we travelled back to New York via internal flights, on the smallest planes I have ever been on!
I absolutely love to travel and experience new places and cultures, the pictures I have posted are some of my favourites from each of these holidays. I am grateful for being able to experience all the things I have, the memories from each of these places are something I will always treasure. The adventure wasn't just the places but getting to experience it with some of my most favourite people.
Having these memories isn't just about where I have been but who I spent these times with.
Kerry xo
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