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St Louis Eats
St Louis will likely end up as one of our highlights which is really saying a lot since we barely even decided to go. The only reason we even considered it in the beginning was because Charlie specifically asked to go see the arch that he had read about in one of his books. Then Read more
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Great balls of fire
We had originally planned on stopping in St Louis en route to Nashville. Then we thought about popping over on the way to Louisville or Mississippi but we just didn’t make it happen. And then we realized that in order to get all the states, we were going to have to get the ones in Read more
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Swamp Life
A swamp tour seemed like a necessary thing to do while we were in Mississippi. We weren’t that far away from Honey Island Swamp and Dr. Wagner’s swamp tours so we gave them a call, made our reservations, made sure to have enough cash on hand since we didn’t have any personal cheques and set Read more
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Beignet, done that
We couldn’t miss a chance for a trip to the French quarter in NOLA and to introduce the kids to one of our favourite American cities. Jacob and I visited in 2012 when I was pregnant with Charlie before we went on our cruise with Dan and Becky. Thankfully we caught another day without rain Read more
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Who dat?
We left Nashville and continued south. We have reworked this trip at least 16 times now and so we are only staying in Mississippi for a week, which is about a week longer than all recommendations we have been given. We had really no reason for picking Mississippi, other than it seemed to be reasonable Read more
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Nashville
Country music, cowboy boots and daytime drinking aren’t really my thing, well at least two of those things aren’t, so we decided to keep our stop in Nashville short. We only had one day and two nights on the docket for Nashville and that worked out just perfectly. Unfortunately, Jacob woke up with a headache Read more
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 
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