Today I’ll start going into details as to what places we want to see in our journey. Here is where you can give your suggestions about what else we can see in our way, places of interest that we didn’t think about.

We’ll start our trip in Key West, FL, the Southernmost City in the Continental United States. We’ll visit Ernest Hemingway’s first owned house in America (he owned the house since 1931 until his death in 1961), the place where he did most of his writing (over 70% of his literary work), including “A Farewell To Arms” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls”.

Next stop is South Beach, in Miami, the first section of the Miami Beach to be developed, starting 1910 and the world’s largest collection of Streamline Modern Art Deco architecture. It is best known as a major entertainment destination with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants and boutique hotels. Ocean Drive is the most popular street in South Beach with it’s many restaurants and Gianni Versace’s former ocean front mansion.

We’ll then go to Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s launch headquarters, with a tour of the launch areas, rockets and spaceflight simulators. It is located near Cape Canaveral, on Merritt Island.

Next is St. Augustine, FL, the continental United States’ oldest city settled by Europeans, in 1565. It is home to Castillo de San Marcos Spanish built fort and the oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in America.

New Orleans is our next stop. Founded in 1718, the city is most famous for it’s rich history (it was the richest city in the US in 1840), the Mardi Gras parades, the Jazz Fest and, more recent, the Hurricane Katrina.

Next on our list is Houston, TX, the fourth largest city in the US. It’s main attraction is Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, home to NASA’s Mission Control Center, where we hope not to hear the oh-so-famous “Houston, we have a problem!” from all the Hollywood’s space flight related movies.

From here we’ll go to San Antonio, TX, to wander along the River Walk and learn about the Alamo culture.

We’ll make a stop in Austin, TX, Best Place to Live, according to Money Magazine, Greenest City according to MSN and #1 College Town according to Travel Chanel.

The last stop in this first segment of our trip is Dallas, TX, home to J.R. Ewing and the scene of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, in 1963.