Courtyard Memphis Airport

... 8220;Hell Yeah!”.  Is Hell Yeah a town?  Is that some random town’s slogan?  Creepy… I arrived in Memphis shortly after dusk and found my hotel thanks to Daniel – my trusty on-loan Garmin GPS.  I tried Karen for ...

... road back to New Orleans to be closer to our planned destinations tomorrow. Tuesday 21st December - New Orleans We left our French courtyard-style motel behind and hit the highway to a Creole plantation, 35 miles west of New Orleans. We drove an extra ...

... was pretty spread out but not bad.  We took off for Kansas City and got in around 6:30.  We stayed at the Courtyard by Marriot at Country Club Plaza.  We dropped our stuff and took off to walk around the plaza. We were impressed w/ this ...

... the step pyramid (aptly named because it looks like a series of steps). We then walked through the funerary complex courtyard (the pharaohs believed in the afterlife so their funerary complexes mirrored much of their palace which was the reason for the ...

... my tour guide asked how much I had paid for them and I told her 200 and she got all mad and marched me back inside the courtyard and told the guards something in Arabic and then they all walked down there with us. The guy first gave me my 200 pounds back ...

...   Seti II.  This area had some lovely painted hieroglyphics on the walls. From here we walked through the courtyard past the second pylons into the Great Hypostyle Hall. This place was fantastic. Imagine walking through 134 mammoth papyrus ...

... to Sharm el-Sheikh is uneventful enough.  I do notice there are very few women on the flight or working in the airport.   Memphis Tours picks us up at the airport and we meet Gomaa (which means Friday in Arabic), also known as Ahmed ...

... which is the main part of town and we are 2 blocks away from it. The hotel is real nice a boutique style hotel with a nice courtyard. We had some dinner and headed to bourbon street which is the big boozy area in new Orleans, it twice the size of any ...