Friday was a very rainy, cloudy, wet day and with most of the downtown buildings still closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday, we took a gamble that some of the plantations and other tourist attractions were open and headed for White Castle, home of the Nottoway Plantation - A 150 year old sugar plantation that is still in operation today. Nottoway was completed in 1859 forJohn Hampden Randolph and his wife, Emily Jane Liddell Randolph, and it was home to their ele...

Tuesday in Memphis was not a nice day weatherwise and as Mud Island was closed until next Spring, we were at a bit of a loose end. Luckily (or may be not!), the lady at the visitor centre had told us about Tunica, about 30 miles south of Memphis where they have casinos. There are some strange laws here about gambling being all right as long as it is done on the water. The original casino boats were designed to carry passengers out into International waters where ...