Driving down through the Southeastern US - From North and South Carolina through Great Smoky Mountains and Georgia, Alabama, Florida to New Orleans in Louisiana.

From Charleston, SC, known for its cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages and pastel antebellum houses in the elegant French Quarter and Battery districts, we head to the Great Smoky Mountains, a famous mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States.

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After spending few days in the mountains, we head dead down south through the largest southern city of Atlanta (Georgia) and Montgomery (Alabama), a city known for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. With a little beach stopover in the very west of Florida we finally arrive to the city of desires: New Orleans (Lousiana).

Charleston, SC.

Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century; almost one half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston's culture blends traditional Southern U.S., English, French, and West African elements.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, the South Carolina port city founded in 1670, is defined by its cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages and pastel antebellum houses, particularly in the elegant French Quarter and Battery districts.

Charleston, SC.

The Battery promenade and Waterfront Park both overlook Charleston Harbor, while Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold where the first shots of the Civil War rang out, lies across the water.

Charleston, SC.

South Carolina.

Cotton Plantation.

South Carolina.

Cotton Plantation.

Congaree National Park, SC.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Georgia.

Montgomery, AL.

Pensacola Beach, FL.

New Orleans, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

St. Joseph Plantation.

Vacherie, LA.

A sugar plantation; an abandoned investment property; a cattle ranch; a landscape of defiance in the face of the Army Corps of Engineers--Oak Alley has been many things in its over 200 years of history. Today it is a historic site, dedicated to preserving and interpreting each chapter of this plantation’s memory.

Vacherie, LA.

Oak Alley is named for its distinguishing visual feature, an alley created by a double row of southern live oak trees about 800 feet (240 meters) long, planted in the early 18th century — long before the present house was built.

Vacherie, LA.

Lake Martin, LA.

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Driving down through the Southeastern US - From North and South Carolina through Great Smoky Mountains and Georgia, Alabama, Florida to New Orleans in Louisiana.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

Charleston, SC.

South Carolina.

South Carolina.

Congaree National Park, SC.

Congaree National Park, SC.

Congaree National Park, SC.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Georgia.

Montgomery, AL.

Pensacola Beach, FL.

Pensacola Beach, FL.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

Vacherie, LA.

Lake Martin, LA.

Lake Martin, LA.

Lake Martin, LA.

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