V & K in the Deep South

Today didn't start well but so you don't get too stressed out while reading the first bit of the day I'll tell you now that we survived. We were woken at 6am by thunder and lightening, a lot of thunder and lightening. It was so bad that we put the weather channel on and we discovered that there was a Tornado warning. Suddenly the weather report muted and it started beeping and repeating "tornado in your area, take cover immediately". We basically shit ourselves. Then there was a power cut and we were plunged into darkness. Luckily there was emergency lighting in the communal areas so all the guests hung out together in the lobby near our room cos we were in the basement. The power eventually came back on but the storm continued. We mingled with the other guests while we were waiting, they seemed more concerned with whether breakfast would be ok. The idea of mingling with the other guests filled me with dread before our trip but it was actually quite nice. Breakf...

We set off a little later than planned as K didn't feel too good last night so we decided against a big breakfast this morning. We left the hotel about 9 and I grabbed a coffee and a banana to go from the breakfast buffet. It was another roasting day today but overcast again so the photos don't look so good. Our route for today was highway 61, also known as the Blues Highway, down the Mississippi Delta. Our first stop was Clarksdale which has a lot of blues stuff including the crossroads where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil in exchange for sweet guitar skills.  It also has a few blues museums and Morgan Freeman's blues club, Ground Zero. We went a wee walk about the downtown and took lots of pictures but even though it was Saturday morning the downtown was dead. The only other people wandering about were fellow tourists. We found a nice coffee shop and had a nice wee coffee break before our planned early lunch. At 1130 we headed to Larry's Tamales...