Heading east we decided to visit the birth place of Riley King. BB King - 'Blues Boy' himself. Indianola is now home to a museum that traces the life of the blues as lived by BB King. More glass cases with autographed Gibson 'Lucilles' and plenty of cotton-picking stories here. Mr King's tour bus (as the local guide respectfully refers to it) now sits idle on the front parking lot – well for now anyway. I dare say the band will soon gather itself together and get out an about again, just like The Crickets did once they had finished mourning the loss of Buddy H.

I have to say the story told in these museums starts to get a little repetitive. There are only so many times in a fortnightyou can listen to Elvis singing Arthur Crudup's 'That's Alright Mama'. Not to mention the obligatory appearance of Bono and U2 somewhere along the line! (He gets everywhere!) It was nice when we were in Memphis and Sun Studio to hear Elvis's first hit - and a defining moment it may be - but there are plenty more tunes out there!

We were now on the home straight back to Atlanta. A very long haul we intended to break-up with an overnight stop somewhere Alabama, preferably in a countryside motel rather than the fast-food chain highway strip hotels like Holiday Inn Express.

The dream was again realised at the Lakeshore Inn, Double Springs on Lewis Smith Lake a huge flooded valley complex of reservoir waters. We were the only guests for our one-night stop-over before pressing on further towards Atlanta and a one-nighter at Gadsden, Alabama then the final 100 mile drive to Atlanta International – and home.

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