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| Clarksdale Crossroads |
Our journey
today will be on more country roads rather than a fast interstate highway as we’re
going to Clarksdale, which has a big history with “The Blues”. The journey
takes us along roads that are slightly raised above the level of the
surrounding fields, past tin shacks, wooden “shotgun” houses and large brick
built homesteads, such a variety. Farm machinery looks just abandoned where it
finished working and there’s lots of flooding beside the roads. The Crossroads
are marked by a couple of guitars above the crossroads of 61 and 49, so
insignificant really for a point on the map that has inspired so may blues
songs. We are hoping to lunch at Ground Zero Blues Club but after a few
circuits of Clarksdale we find it is shut because of Memorial Day. Ahh, this
might mean we will struggle to see other places on our list, and yes, every
other café we look at is shut…
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| BB King Museum |
The Super 8 at
Indianola is just like our Travelodge at home but it is clean and spacious if
not homely or quaint. We set off to just find the BB King Museum and end up
touring the place for 2 to 3 hours, it is the one place that is open today. The
museum is a wonderfully set out and gives a excellent account of BB Kings life,
civil rights, musical and personal life. I feel like I know this man before we
leave. The most poignant bit is visiting his grave at the back of the museum,
both of us alone on the 29th May, 2 years to the day from when he
laid in open coffin here before his burial the next day.
By now we are
starving, and after investigating many cafes, restaurants and bars we
eventually find an open one, Guadelahara, a Mexican restaurant provides us with
good filling Mexican food, corn chips and salsa, filled empanadas and steak and
shrimp on rice. With full stomachs we stagger back to the hotel and notice that
no one else is walking around here.
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