American Road Trip with St Scooby Doo Day 6

Here we are on Day 6 and man this is hard work, developing, consulting the lil book and arranging.. so im hoping you are enjoying this;.. Not too many windscreen shots in this one.. Anyway

Morning Campers... the light in the pink house makes it seem a much nicer place today and first thing i did was to tell Pen that she was bloody mean for deserting my bed and I am tired. 
Off to find some breakfast and a mosey about town



The blues museum were not open for breakfast today but pointed us in the direction of a good cafe

 pen marking off the previous days hike and finding the next route

 ah yes,, smoking.. yep tis allowed Pen checked it out on the iphone for the states smoking in bars is still alllowed and luckily some counties in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana allow it.. fantastic! Sitting opposite a couple from London who are also going down to New Orleans might see them there.

peeping in the door.. actually correction boldly standing in the door of another room in the cafe and moved swiftly out.

Around Clarksdale.. Morgan Freeman has a bar here 'Ground Zero'

 Where we spent last night celebrating Watermelon Slims birthday party

Back inthe pink house to pack up.. this was the first room

bottom bit of our bedroom.. dont know whether the tv worked

our beds -apologies housekeeper for not making the beds.. he was going in today as they had a funeral party stopping there.

FOR PEN

Must see read of the better USA books (the one with naff all pictures) said 'Devils Crossroads' where you sell your soul to the devil in return for becoming a great blues artiste. You are supposed to bury something ,, in doing so you might just get run over.. NOT SO MUCH

Another must - see Hopson Plantation, cotton picking with slave quarters. we could have stayed here, the couple from London did and they said was brill..

 Got an invite from Lightening Malcolm to watch his band in Pirates Cove Alabama

 Punching Rosedale in the sat nav to keep us on the nice roads (meaning f off highway and freeways).   We're off

Bloody nora.. my camera card has stopped working and only got 6 shots on it.. (later found out it had videos on it BAH)..
STOPPED at a dollar general.. no chance... Walmarts it is.
HAVE YOU FORGIVEN ME YET PEN HEE HEE
Cos whilst we were in there i made her get her haircut.. not my fault she says she didnt want to look in the mirror.. not my fault that they looked like there were halfcut.. not my fault that she said i like a long fringe not my fault for them failing to recognise what a fringe was she should have said bangs.. oh dear..viscous high fringe now..

just liked her hair - reminding me of Liverpool girls minus the curlers...

 Long straight roads, miles and miles of low flat land and trees that grow out of the water.
and then i saw this.. first i thought .. ah another poor house just left to rot.

i realised this was a church hence the gravestones.. but there is a definate face in the window.   i have blown this up and it is a horrid face ,,, creepy

Dead snakes on the road - loads of houses in the woods.. do you think that suffering from snakes is like suffering from atheritis??? hee hee

Passed an indian burial ground.. no pics as looked like a large grassy lump


.. and liked the shot below

Me at the wheel and Pen is writing.. Humid and v. windy, blue skies and vivid green, unbroken farmland, little clumps of trees and large silos. 
Poor housing, mostly black people and nothing around for shops ,,  several very large churches.  Straight straight roads - my eyeballs hurt.

WHY WHY WHY is it impossible to get a cup of coffee here - not even good coffee just ANY  coffee . Also (dunno cos she never finished the sentance) hee hee

Vicksberg, Mississippi a historic town.. went for a mosey

Steamboat is now a casino and closed for renovation.. BAH

 One of the several ante bellum houses

Pen at the wheel
Driving the Trace Parkway ,, renowned for its beauty..however couldnt see that much as it was dusk passed a sign warning of bears!
Into Natchez at dark,, tried to find Tom Sawyers Motel but it was too hidden.. Food.. starving and we tried Tomales.. Scusting.. horrible.
Checked into Grand Hotel 110 dollars inc. breakfast and bonus some tokens for the laundry.. Good job as running out of clean knickers hee hee.
night night
Mileage .. will work out later
Pens shot of me on her iphone