Category: Deep South USA August 2019

We started off this morning by walking back down to the river and buying tickets for the Riverboat ride at

We started the day by walking up the road to Saint Louis No. 1 cemetery which is the oldest and

This evening we are going to our first NFL game so first thing today we walked up to the Superdome

The plantation houses were all built along River Road which runs along the Mississippi which meant that the houses could

We had three plantations to visit today, all of which have a focus on the life of slaves, so we

Today we head to New Orleans which is our final location before we head home, I can’t believe we are

We started the day by driving out to LSU, Louisiana State University, like a lot of the American college campus

Today we had arranged to go on an Airboat tour around the Atchafalaya Swamp or Bayou, apparently swamps can also

Today we set off for Vermillionville which is actually what Lafayette was originally called. This is a Living History Museum

So after finally accepting that we are not landed gentry and that we had to move on from our antebellum

After a very nice breakfast we decided to head out to Oakland Plantation which had been closed when we came

We had a busy day today as we are heading into the plantation zone, we left a little earlier than

Today we have another couple of Antebellum houses to visit, we decided to take the car rather than rely on

Today we have visits to a number of houses scheduled as there are loads of antebellum houses that were not

Today we set off for Natchez, we decided to call into a shopping centre before we left as Jackson has

The good news is that the storm we had yesterday has passed us by and it is nice again today

The storm that has been circling us for the last few days finally hit and when we woke up this

It turns out that there was never any fighting during the civil war in Mobile therefore the houses were not

Today we drove to Mobile which we had been told was originally going to be called Africa town but it

I really like Montgomery, possibly because it is a State Capitol so a bit more organised and definitely richer. We

Last night we had the most enormous thunderstorm where the whole sky went dark, we had thunder and lightning overhead

Today we set off to walk around Birmingham, we are staying in the heart of downtown and the city is

We had to leave our Pullman car and continue our journey so having packed up we got in the car

Today we explored Chattanooga by foot, we walked down Market street which is the main road that runs from the

We set off this morning slightly confused because what we though was a 3 hour journey seemed to be saying

Today we went to the US Space and Rocket Centre which is operated by the government of Alabama and is

We had stayed in Florence as a way to split the journey from Oxford to Huntsville which meant that the

We started the day by stopping at Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis Presley where they have created a park dedicated

We walked up to the Visitor Information to pick up a copy of the Oxford Walking Tour booklet which has

We had breakfast then went and checked out of the hotel and set off for Graceland our first stop for