Mississippi II

After visiting Alabama we returned to Corinth again to have Thanksgiving with family.  We stayed for 3 more weeks. Bringing our total time here 6 weeks.  Weather was getting colder and icey so we decided it was finally time to start heading south.

 

Clarksdale

  Delta Blues Museum is the state’s " oldest music" museum.  

 

Clarksdale, Mississippi has long been described as "Ground Zero" for blues aficionados from around the globe.  It all started here. That's why Ground Zero Blues Club was created — to celebrate the area's rich blues heritage and to provide a forum in which it can continue.  Located at Ø Blues Alley next door to the Delta Blues Museum in the heart of historic downtown Clarksdale.
 

Heavy frost

 

Vicksburg

 

 

 

Where Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894!!
The Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum features the history of one of the Nation's beloved beverages, along with equipment of the type that Joseph Biedenharn used to bottle Coke for the first time anywhere in the world.

 

 

Great place to eat

 Southern Plantation Cuisine

The handsome old house on Adams Street in the historic district opened in 1980 as a round table restaurant, equal to the old time boarding house style restaurants. The house was built in 1880 by the Rogers family with a striking homey presence: wide porch, tall shuttered winds, and Vicksburg pierced columns. The home's name has it own history. Centuries before the town existed, the Spanish named the area Nogales, after the walnut trees that grew along the bluffs.

 

Greenwood, Louisiana

We were planning to just drive straight through Louisiana on our way to Texas.  Shortly after pulling back onto the interstate after eating lunch traffic came to a stop.  A semi had turned over and was blocking the both lanes.  It had been raining all day.  Traffic was backed up for miles.  After inching along on the interstate for 2 hours we got off and started inching along on the frontage road.  Checking our navigation, I noticed that we would be coming up to an RV Park shortly.   It was only 2:30 and we were hoping to make it to Ennis Texas. When we got even with the RV park we looked at each other and weighed the facts - raining all day, already 2 hours behind schedule and Friday the 13th. We pulled in.  From our site we were able to watch the stopped traffic for a couple of hours knowing that we made the right decision.