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Published on: 2/19/2008
Last Visited: 3/17/2008
Karen Wild of Lagniappe Travel Services here in New Orleans agrees."There's not a bad picture on the Internet - everything's great," she says.
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When it comes to local domestic travel, says Wild, "a lot of people from New Orleans go to Mississippi just to gamble, but there's so much more."
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For a different spin on local adventure travel, "one of my biggest sellers is the Myrtles Plantation," says Wild.That's the St. Francisville plantation-turned-inn with a reputation for lodging ghostly guests along with corporeal weekenders."People love to go to the most haunted plantation in the U.S., drive out on a Friday, maybe see some ghosts, and come home on a Sunday," says Wild with a chuckle.