Ah finally, some internet access. On the historic Hopson Plantation, about a mile from the mythical crossroads, no less. The Plantation is now home to The Shack Up Inn, which has converted the sharecropper shacks to no-frills but very cool guest cabins. We had a great visit in New Orleans with lots of great food and fun activities. The camera is currently uploading several days worth of pictures to Flickr so we’ll have those up tonight or tomorrow. Today we stopped at some historic Delta Blues sites, including two possible gravesites for Robert Johnson. We also went on a backwoods (and I do mean backwoods) tour of the Mississippi hills looking for the gravesite of and museum dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt but we were unsuccessful. It was a scenic trip however. It a bit incredible to me that every pillow that Elvis ever drooled on is guilded and enshrined somewhere but these places dedicated to musicians who had such a huge influence on American music are nearly impossible to find. Tomorrow we’re going to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale and Stovall Plantation where Muddy Waters lived, then on to Memphis and all that entails, like Sun and Stax Records, Al Green’s church, maybe even Graceland or the Peabody Ducks. Anyway, expect more updates as we get pictures and videos uploaded.
