My parents spent the weekend with their friends, Alice and Gene, tucked away in a little place called Shack-Up Inn in Clarksdale. This place is a Mississippi gem set back in time, and having visited twice before, I just knew my folks would thoroughly enjoy it. (It was a Christmas gift from yours truly, by the way.)
As described by the USA Today as one of the 10 Best Places to Rent a Cottage, Shack-Up is "a must-stop on any Delta Blues trip with undeniable character. You stay in updated sharecropper shacks or rooms carved from bins attached to an old cotton gin on historic Hopson Plantation. Shack-Up is near Madidi, the restaurant co-owned by actor and Clarksdale native Morgan Freeman, Ground Zero Blues Club and Delta Blues Museum."
It may not look like much, but this is by far one of my favorite places, and I highly recommend everyone make a trip there at least once. It's worth the drive through the Delta. It's at the crossroads of Highway 49 and 61. It's a place where you don't meet a stranger, and everyone's up for some good, old-fashioned shack-sittin'. And it's also where bluesman Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil, so keep your ears open for some ghostly guitar pickin' in the air.
So... now that Shack-Up Inn is on your to-do list this year, we just need to figure out if we should shack-sit on the porch of your shack or mine? :)
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