Day 22: Clarksdale
Leave Memphis sadly after getting home at 7.30am. I haven't slept a wink when we have to load up our luggage and leave for Clarksdale.
The girls are stirring me about 'Lionel' and there is lots of laughter on the bus again today.
We stop at Tunica to view some cotton fields and to take a photo of the Highway 61 Blues Museum.
I think of Robert Johnson and the crossroads story. I can't believe I'm here after being a blues fan for so many years!
We then drive to Clarksdale at the official Crossroads where a small town awaits us.
There are only afew blocks in this town and it looks abandoned.
I visit the Blues Museum which is very interesting and has a small exhibit on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
We also visit an old guitar shop where Rich (Liverpool) has a jam on one of the Fenders.
Jen then takes us to the former Hopson Cotton Plantation, where we look at the houses as they were in the day of the cotton pickets and have a drink at the local dispensary.
The group go to Morgan Freemans Ground Zero for dinner but I end up flaking it on the bed after my mammoth night in Memphis.
As there's not much to do, we all go to the local Cafe and then check into our hotel.