From Baton Rouge we drove Highway 1 along the Mississippi - the Plantation Road - to New Orleans. The Mississippi - we drove along it all day, but the levees are so high you can't see it unless you go over a bridge and there are No Trespassing signs all over for companies that have road access up the levees. There are industrial and oil storage facilities all the way along and when we did get a glimpse of the river and ports, it looks huge and full of barges and boats and cranes alongside. We toured three sugar plantations along the Mississippi - Nottoway, Oak Alley and Laura Plantations. There are two types of plantation homes in Louisiana - the Creole ones built by people who immigrated to Louisiana from other countries - France, Spain,
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