Across the road from where we are staying is the "Grand Old Opry", a very famous Nashville concert hall. Next to it is Opryland Shopping Centre with a massive Outdoor Centre in front of the shopping centre, Karen beelined for the shops and I made for the outdoor centre. Outside was heaps of fishing boats and ATVs. I think I have found a new toy, an Artic Cat Wildcat (see photos). This would be so much fun. As you walk inside the sports store, the entrance looks l...

Today we are travelling through Alabama and on to Tennessee. Shame I didn't get a photo but crossing from Louisiana to Alabama is a huge sign "Sweet Home Alabama". Would have been good to get a shot next to it. Reading articles about Alabama we worked out there was another NASA site about 40k off the main interstate. It is the Marshall Space Flight Centre located in Huntsville Alabama. We decided to head off the highway and have a visit. The difference with this ...

Another item I wanted to strike off my travel to do list is a visit to a slave plantation. There are quite a few to pick from but Laura Plantation kept receiving great reviews so we headed to it. It is located in a town called Vacherie between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. It is not the type of house out of "Gone with the Wind" (Oak Alley next door has that type of house) which most expect from these plantations but very closely resembles an old Queenslander. The ...

It is about a 30k drive from NOLA to the Louisiana Swamp Tour Company but an easy drive. We selected the small airboat ( max 6 passengers) rather than the bigger one up to 15 people, glad we did as it seems more personal with lees people. Four out of the six passengers were Australian which was kinda funny as the Americans were in the minority. I cannot recommend this tour highly enough, it was $95 per person and worth every cent. Our guide/driver was Marty and h...

Left Couchatta and had a fairly uneventful trip through Lafayette and Baton Rouge to New Orleans. We were travelling on Highway 10 and crossed an area called Henderson Swamp. The bridge over the swamp was impressive and seemed to never end, 18 miles of bridge covering probably the biggest swamp/wetlands I have ever seen. We drove into New Orleans Downtown area and the first thing we noticed was homeless/beggars everywhere, more than any other place in to US I hav...