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  • The famous Blue Ridge Parkway, a breathtaking highway through the Appalacian Mountains. This was shot in The Great Smoky Mountain Park near Robbinsville NC, taken as part of a 2700 mile two week road trip from Atlanta Georgia through Tennessee and Mississippi to New Orleans. There is great feeling of  freedom when you know you have  two weeks away from work  and responsibility and nothing but open road before you.
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  • Motel shot at night on the outskirts of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Part of the attraction of a road trip is just hitting the tarmac and seeing where you will end up. When the budget doesn’t run to a fabulous hotel you can always plump for rough and ready and possibly film noir at the thousands of bargain priced motels around the states. One can normally get clean sheets and a comfortable bed for the night but if not it all adds to the classic road trip experience.
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  • Matt Walton Posing with  his car  Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson,Tennessee, with his family in the background. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around: that’s when you get to meet the real America. Matts car looked like it was worth more than his house.
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  • VW van parked opposite redundant farm buildings near Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future. Hopson was the first plantation to convert completely to the mechanical cotton pickers. Soon afterward, the sharecropper shacks where the plantation's workers had lived were abandoned and then torn down. But now they're back at the Shack Up Inn, Mississippi's oldest B&B -- and that's bed and beer, y'all. "We don't fool around with any fixing of breakfasts," said Bill Talbot, part owner of the inn.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • Mail-box on the road leading into Robbinsville, North Carolina. Although this picture is typical of the road side view one gets when driving through the US. The US flag depicted in this context reflects the increased visibility of the stars and stripes post 9/11 and evokes a more sinister interpretation of this picture.
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  • trail of car headlights photographed at  at night in Vicksberg, Mississippi.
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  • Jounalist, Katy Regan, 4 months pregnant, posing outside a refurbished cotton planters shack at the Shack Up Inn whilst on a road trip of the American southern states. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn.
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  • The Hard Rock Café, Nashville. Nashville  is the capital of Tennessee  and the self styled  home of country music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Original 'Blues brother' style Dodge Monaco police car at the Shack Up Inn, Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future.
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  • Daisy, waitressing at a waffle house on 10 Highway, Baton Rouge. One of the joys of a road trip is sampling the many original 'dinner' restaurants built in the fifties and still with all the original fittings and  fixtures “happy days” style.
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  • The legendary crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 outside Clarksdake, Mississippi. In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, no one who heard him could believe he was the same man. He blew everyone away, playing the songs that would make him famous, among them "Cross Road Blues" and "Me And The Devil Blues." Rumours started and a myth was born :Johnson did a deal with the devil here at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 and sold his soul in return for his musical abilities. Whatever  the truth fans on the way to  the historic Blues town of Clarksdale and and its  Delta Blues Museum will often stop at Abe's Bar B Q on the intersection and pay homage.
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  • Handyman Matt Walton with his son, Nathan and partner outside their home, Lower Brownsville Rd, Jackson, Tennessee. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • Lindsey Maples and friend Robert Montgomery hanging out as the sun begins to set in Arkabutla, Tennessee. The trick of the road trip experience  in Southern USA is to get off the main highways as often as possible: it’s the best  way to meet the real America. Despite the stereotype of red neck America that is portrayed you are more likely to meet a friendly and hospitable folk interested in you as you are in them.
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  • After heavy rain and the subsequent flooding, two lone canoeists paddle down the centre of the A27 near Chichester, West Sussex. The Dual carriageway has been completely submerged to approximately 1.5 metres and only the road sign with its directional arrow is visible above the surface which is rippling in a faint breeze. The men in red and yellow kayaks look inexperienced in boating activities and their clothing is not suitable for water sports. Even so, they are speeding down the highway that is otherwise empty of all other vehicles and they have the water and space to themselves without the fear of collision.
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  • This truck seems to be pulling the Corn like a load direcly from the field and is evocative of the relationship to land and transport the Americans have always had, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This multi story carpark  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
    sunsettruck_1.jpg
  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed. A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • Casino on converted steamer, Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them . <br />
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“It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the<br />
four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened.<br />
The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
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  • Blues singer outside the Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, and ZZ Top are some of the many musicians who have put Clarksdale on the map: with its own blues museum on Blues Alleyit is no surprise to hear that  Clarksdale it is famous for being ‘the birth place of the Blues’.
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  • Church in North Carolina . You can’t drive through the southern states, 'Bible Belt' of  America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is sign opposite a typical wooden built chapel. Other signs near by read: “The Church is a rest home for sinners not a hospital for saints” or simply “alcohol is a sin”.
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  • The three musicians depicted  have ties to Clarksdale: this mural is located on the side of Carmen's Pawn shop at the corner of Sunflower and 2nd St. The city of Clarksdale is known as ”the land where the blues began”.
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  • Road side baptist Church in Arkabutla, Senatobia. You can’t drive through the southern states, ‘Bible belt” of America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is typical wooden built chapel photographed as the light begins to fade.
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  • Nathan Walton In his back yard swimming pool, Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson, Tennessee  with his father Matt, mother and friend in back ground. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • The World famous Tootsies  bar on  Broadway  Nashville.  Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the self styled  home of country  music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Tourists relaxing by  a motel swimming pool that just happens to over look the four lane highway route 55, Senatobia, MS. In America the car and lifestyle are so inseparable that this juxtaposition of leisure activity  and  motorways seems perfectly normal and is a common sight in the US .
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  • Dusk falls on a typical Mississippi veranda in a Hopper-esque fashion. Between Nesbit and Sardis just off route 55, Mississippi. When Driving through the Bible belt its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America.
    HOPPERSHACK_1.jpg
  • Dunk'n doughnuts restaurant  opposite the legendary  crossroads of Highways 49 and 61. In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, no one who heard him could believe he was the same man. He blew everyone away, playing the songs that would make him famous, among them "Cross Road Blues" and "Me And The Devil Blues."<br />
Rumours started and a myth was born :Johnson did a deal with the devil here at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 and sold his soul in return for his musical abilities. Whatever  the truth fans on the way to  the historic Blues town of Clarksdale and its  Delta Blues Museum will often stop at Abe's Bar B Q  or  the Dunk'n doughnuts restaurant on the intersection and pay homage.
    DOUGHNUT_1.jpg
  • Fine examples of early 19th century Georgian Regency terraced housing on the Camberwell New Road, south London. A cyclist passes-by on his way north towards the Oval. Clean brickwork and window pedament arches show the pre-Victorian era building style. Camberwell New Road is part of the A202. It goes from Camberwell to Kennington Oval. It was a turnpike road authorized by Act of Parliament in 1818, just after the construction in 1816 of the first Vauxhall Bridge, which it leads to, thus providing a second route from Camberwell to central London. Camberwell New Road is the longest Georgian Road in England.
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  • Fine examples of early 19th century Georgian Regency terraced housing on the Camberwell New Road, south London. A cyclist passes-by on his way north towards the Oval. Clean brickwork and window pedament arches show the pre-Victorian era building style. Camberwell New Road is part of the A202. It goes from Camberwell to Kennington Oval. It was a turnpike road authorized by Act of Parliament in 1818, just after the construction in 1816 of the first Vauxhall Bridge, which it leads to, thus providing a second route from Camberwell to central London. Camberwell New Road is the longest Georgian Road in England.
    camberwell_housing02-27-03-2012_1.jpg
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