#355 Three nights at the fairgrounds in Clarksdale Mississippi

Behind our site was a big field that Bert and we enjoyed

About 30 miles north was Clarksdale and it was quite built up and I was kind of wanting to see a blues joint that was operated by Morgan Freeman but it was closed, so sad. It was a Covid thang and they were just being careful.

The name was The Ground Zero Club. We settled into what was kind of a trailer park with a lot of permanent people at the fairgrounds. Everybody seemed friendly and we were able to find a place kind of off to ourselves. It was on the side of the road that did not have sewer so it was less popular but fine for us. The price was reasonable I think it was 20 bucks. We paid for one night just in case it might be awful but then when we realized it was okay, we stayed for two more.

Clarksdale had some really cool wall art

We wanted to use it as a pivot point to go south and do a big loop. I had already gone by Mound Bayou so we went to the BB King Museum.

We weren't sure exactly if we wanted to go inside and all but it was about $16 per person and I wasn’t sure if I wanted it that bad. We ended up giving him some money up at his restaurant in Memphis later in a few weeks. We did a nice loop and we were going to eat there in Indianola. Everything we could find was closed till like 4 pm. We had to go on towards the main part of town around the corner and found a place called Pea soup.

It's a nice little diner and I took some cool pictures of memorabilia signs. We finished our loop in Greenville Mississippi which of the childhood home of Jim Henson of the Muppets.

The museum was closed but we enjoyed seeing his childhood home and the Rainbow Connection. When we got back to Clarksdale we had some dinner in town at the Wild Pony restaurant.

This wasn't the Wild Pony I just thought what a menu! and we cut hair.

I was having a power steering failure so now it was time to remove and replace the pump as it was under warranty from O'Reilly's. It was still a chore to get it off and on and that took like all day but the reason it was so important is the pump does more than just steering it also operates the brakes. I didn't want brake failure with the RV behind me. The pump had been giving me some really weird symptoms. Unless you accelerated quite heavily in idle you could barely even turn the wheel. More than once it decided it wasn’t going to work right. I would press on the brakes and very little to nothing would happen. Again, I got it done but it was quite a chore. When I got finished O'Reilly gave me a 100% refund for the power steering pump. It had failed within about one and a half years of the original purchase. I went by Lowes and purchased the materials needed for Emmett Till. When I did my visit the manager said if you wish to help we could use some better lighting. We had recently received a covid stimulus check and I couldn’t think of a better place to spend some of it than with these folks. We were sitting out in the cool of the evening and enjoyed watching Bert laying in a field of clover. That would be about the extent of our visit to Clarksdale. On the way out of town, I was approaching a bridge that showed a height of 13’ 6”. We are exactly 13’ 6” and so I pulled over. I called the town hall and asked if this would be a problem. Destroying one RV was plenty for me. They didn’t know who to transfer me to. Finally, a guy came on the line and suggested a fail-safe route in the other direction. We thanked him and went on down the road.