“I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees”
Well, today’s been a long day. We set out early from Memphis, aiming to get to Clarkesdale, Mississippi at a reasonable time to visit the Delta Blues Museum, grab some lunch at Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Club and get on the road to New Orleans. Sounds simple, no? We made good time and found the crossroads where blues musician Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil in return for musical talent. When I say ‘found it’, I mean drove down Highway 61 and there it was. We got out and took the obligatory photos with the sign and...
More travels in my home country
We left Nashville yesterday, driving through Jackson, Tennessee, on our way to Memphis. You may not know this, but Jackson, Tennessee is the home to Casey Jones’s Village – a museum and shops dedicated to the memory of Casey Jones a railroad engineer killed trying to save the train and passengers on his train, the Cannonball Express when it collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night. We stopped, had some good ole down home cookin’ and experienced a bit of America none of us had seen before. Then today, we started with...
