Our cruise continues. Today, one of our tours. It can be confusing, because there are various kinds of blues museums. Go across the country, and the majority of Blues museums is in the Mississippi Delta. There was the Blues Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis. The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. Plack Prairie Blue Museum, West Point, Mississippi. Ole Miss Blues Archive, Oxford, Mississippi. Knee Deep Blues Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. National Blues Museum, St. Louis, Missouri....but this one permanently closed just this month. One more, and maybe the best, is the Gateway to the Blues Museum in Tunica County, Mississippi. Located in a rustic train depot going back to 1895. Tells how the Blues was born, and role Tunica played. Some photos. Lots of guitars. Starts with videos. There are two steel guitars you can try to play. The exhibition links life in the age of slaver...
Before I get into the topic of the day, plus our current cruise activities, a few newsworthy topics of the day This article indicates that the annual joke of today, April 1 in the media, began only in 1957 when the BBC claimed that spaghetti trees in southern Switzerland near the Italian border had reached harvest season. I recall being in Japan on numerous first of Aprils. Japan Times usually has a front-page April Fool's Joke. Not sure about today. Google AI couldn't find anything. However Tokyo Paladin with Jake Adelstein published an article yesterday ( March 31 ) about new bicycle laws to be enforced from today. First you wonder if this is one of those spoofs. Then you realize this could really be true. Under any circumstances, though, very funny and worth your while to read the entire article . Has to do with 113 new ways to break the law on a bicycle. Many say the Japanese are wise, and their wisdom as a collective decision co...