Really too many to mention, but here goes with some sort of "top 10" (possibly subject to change given more thought and reflection):
- Travelling with and meeting up with old friends (the pleasure is always better shared)
- Preservation Hall, New Orleans
- Monmouth Plantation House, Natchez (beautiful accommodation and THE best - and most expensive - meal of the trip)
- Tallahatchie Flats, Greenwood (quirky but great accommodation - probably about as close to the real Mississippi Delta as we got)
- Natchez Trace Parkway scenic drive
- Sun Studios and Graceland, Memphis (particularly the tour of the home of Elvis, rather less so the adjacent museum)
- Barber Motorsports Museum, Birmingham
- Muscle Shoals Studios
- National Blues Museum and Jeremiah Johnson Band gig, St Louis
- Architecture Foundation River Cruise, Chicago
"Been there, done that"
- Lafayette
- Natchez
- Jackson (and its rather better, in our opinion, neighbour Vicksburg)
- Greenwood
- Nashville
- Birmingham
- Cape Giradeau
- Fort Madison
- Davenport
Been there but would like to return some sunny day
- New Orleans
- Clarksdale
- Memphis
- Chicago (again!)
Missed but "must do" some day
- Red's Blues Club, Clarksdale
- Open top Cadillac tour of Memphis
- Stax museum, Memphis
- Willie Dixon's Blues Foundation museum, Chicago
- Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
- Candle-lit dinner cruise on Lake Michigan, Chicago
Grateful thanks and appreciation again to those that pointed us in the right direction through their own past experience i.e. Martin, Jeff and Linda and to Sam and Jenny at AmeriCan & Worldwide Travel in Tunbridge Wells who put the whole thing together perfectly (and patiently!) and made our little dream come true.
Thanks, too, to those that have joined us by way of reading the blog. The blog was only ever intended as a diary to remind us of where we went, what we did and who we saw along the way and if others enjoyed it, too, that's an added bonus.
Thought for the trip: "Someday isn't a day of the week" ;0)
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