Tuesday, August 28th - Northern Mississippi Trip

When we settle into an area for several days, in this case, seven days here in the Memphis area, we tend to use our camp as a "hub" and take trips out from the hub to really see the area.

Today, we left our camp around 11:00am and drove to Oxford, Mississippi, the home of the hated Ole Miss Rebels, traditional enemies of MA's school, LSU. We drove thru the Ole Miss campus. Thousands of students were changing classes and it was fairly intense trying to avoid cars AND students. But, we made it thru the campus. It is a very pretty setting with lots of trees.

MA wanted to see Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner. So she toured the home while I napped in the Jeep. Then we drove thru the very quaint downtown area, around the courthouse square.

Then we drove over to Clarksdale, Mississippi, self named "Birthplace of the Blues". It is in the Mississippi "Delta" region, amidst huge cotton plantations. For several months, MA has had her eye on having dinner at Madidi, a restaurant co-owned by actor, Morgan Freeman and a local businessman. We arrived over one hour early (reservations at 6:00pm) so we walked around a bit and went into the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art shop. It was a very interesting collection of CD's and pictures from local artists and musicians. W.C. Handy, Big George Brock, etc.

We went into Madidi and sat at the bar for one hour waiting for the restaurant part to open. MA ordered rib-eye steak and I ordered the filet with spinach and rizzoto. The dinners werewonderful! Full of flavor, excellently prepared - REALLY fine dining!