We enjoyed our breakfast down in the café (much better coffee) & then left Clarksdale heading south on the I61. The driving was easy, the roads very quiet & it took us about 90 mins to get to Vicksburg. Once again our sat nav got us to the door & we checked in. The temperature is rising as we come South & it was about 24* & sunny. We are now in a B& B with a restaurant. The house is called Anchuca & has a long history (for America) & Gone With the Wind type architecture.
We wandered downtown to see what was there, had a juice smoothie & wandered back. There are some lovely properties & it is a pleasant place. Again, everyone is very friendly, even people you pass In the street have a greeting, how y’all doing? being the usual.
The pool attracted us & we ventured in for our first swim of 2015. We both enjoyed our time in the water & got chatting to a French couple from Toulouse, small world. There was also an American couple who insisted that we all had to experience Southern American hospitality & he came furnished with ice, glasses & Bourbon. So we spent a happy hour chatting & exchanging experiences & information in the late afternoon sunshine. It turns out that our Bourbon host is called Culpepper, a first time meet of someone with that name.
We are eating here tonight & it comes highly recommended, so we are looking forward to it. I’ve about reached my limit of burgers, nachos, tasteless cheese & fries. My waistline has the same sentiment!!! I have eaten food here in America that I wouldn’t dream of eating in Europe, none of it has been bad but I do wonder what effect the addition of E no. additives has on the body. The populous here can very easily be categorised into two types, slim & humongous & this crosses the black/white divide without any problem. Is it genetic, is it money, is it education or is it that just about everything comes in huge portions & is loaded with sugar &/or sauce?