Sjeltur

Hi there,…… the first post from THE holiday….
USA trip 2010!

Yesterday we did arrive at Houston….picking up our rental car…. => little disappointment; we where going for the extra charges IF they would have a Ford Mustang Convertible..but NO…
Ah well – we still a nice car… no worries there!

Other worries?
Nope; all is going fine!
Nachododges hotel was nice; good food at the neighbors…. and we went to bed at 22.00h = 24 hours AWAKE…. – so we where TIRED!

Today a 9 hour drive to Memphis… arrived at the hotel in the early evening.

Sooooo- tonight we went to Beale Street in MEMPHIS…!

It is all nice shiny and flashy….

But then….. we got confronted with the ”USA waiter mentality”…. we got a waiter at the Irish Pub (Silky Sullivan something)…. we told the waiter we wanted drinks AND food…..
So – firs an order for drinks…white wine and a beer….

Very fast he delivered the drinks and was confronting us with the bill….
So – I told him we also where going to order food….. BUT his shift almost ended….!!
Uh….. what…??
So – his shift is ending and I need to be confronted with his dumb procedure of “I want to get my tip money”..??
OOOOOOH NOOOO!!!!
And this is why I don’t like the tipping part….
Last year in New York – this year in Memphis….; no real service – but fixated on “the tip”…..

And both the hotels; AGAIN- do you really have a lot of midgets in the USA…??
In both hotels – the shower is pointing at my nipples instead of my head…. WHY…??

And hotel Memphis (Sleep Inn); no free internet on the room… only for business and in the lobby,….. WHY…???

I do have more questions…….!

As you can imagine; we are really bored during such a drive….. – and we start “counting stuff”…
My comment (and question); did you know that ALL THE WALLMARTS between Houston and Memphis are located at the LEFT of the highway..?? Except for the last one in Memphis!!
But…. WHY….??

And uh….. all those questions on the highway about  “do you want to sponsor the highway”….
I think they already have a good sponsor…. called Goodyear (or another car tire sponsor)….
Keep the highway really bad; as you can see on the highways with all the broken tire pieces…. PFFFFF…. is it that hard to keep some good highways..??

Is it all negative..??

Ooooh noooo !!!

We have some amazing weather…!!