I left Aaron’s place in Starkville, Miss., and drove to Clarksdale, Miss., to meet Colin for some dinner. The roads through the Mississippi Delta were some of the most beautiful and most bizarre stretches of road I have ever traveled.
Here are a few things I saw on this leg of the trip…
The different views of sunset were pretty neat to see. The first is on a hilly patch of road east of Greenwood, Miss. The second is a six second exposure in the middle of the Delta.
At times I think I was the only person in a 50-mile radius. I only passed one other car between Greenwood and Clarksdale. When driving through the middle of nowhere in Illinois you can still see houses, streetlights, even the faint glow of a city on the horizon. When driving through the middle of nowhere in Missippi all you see is what your headlights show you.
I got to Clarksdale and found this hotel promising ‘in room movis” for guests. Not as common as “in room movies”, but still sounds like a good deal.
I met Colin at a Mexican place called Atzimba. Not bad… It’s no Bennigan’s, but it was good to see him for a little while. We caught up from the past couple of months since we’d seen each other and talked about life, politics, jobs and past memories from school.
I miss the old days and the friends that went along with them.
