Since we were in Dallas we checked out the memorial to JFK at the site of his assassination. Somehow this memorial doesn't seem quite appropriate. We were expecting a statue of him or something a little more dramatic.

The visitor's centre in Tunica, Arkansas, is a little unusual, to say the least. They consider their town “The Gateway to the Blues".

We are quite used to seeing bales of hay in the fields but the bales of cotton out in the fields was quite an unusual sight for us:

The fields of cotton look quite beautiful...

But the cotton blows everywhere. It builds up along the roads and looks like it has been snowing...

We like to visit the old cemeteries we pass in our travels. A lot of them are quite touching to read, but this one stood out from the rest, in Helena, Arkansas:

Downtown Helena is very interesting, but also very rundown...

A couple of other sites seen in Helena, while old, don't look quite so decrepit: