MISSISSIPPI
Five Days through Mississippi You'll Never Shut Up About.
A total immersion into Mississippi music, food, art culture, history, and hospitality. A luxury bus with a bartender. Live music between cities. Led by a man who's spent 45 years loving this state for a living.
Mississippi Blues Trail, Roadside Eats, Walter Anderson Museum, & more.
ABOUT THE TRIP
A Bartender. A Musician. And Mississippi Out the Window.
I didn't want people squinting at GPS screens while the Delta rolled by. So we got a luxury coach. Then we put a full bar on it. Then, we added live music.
Bloody Mary's and mimosas before lunch. Craft cocktails in the afternoon. A real bartender making real drinks while a musician plays three rows back and the landscape changes in ways most people never slow down long enough to see.
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We load up in Jackson and head straight to the heart of the Delta. We'll hit the BB King Museum--an emotional grounding before Hwy 61, the most famous road in American music. Then we eat at a steakhouse with porterhouses as big as your head, served in a kitchen that hasn't changed in decades. We stay in Cleveland.
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After breakfast we head to the Grammy museum, and then McCarty Pottery for a live demonstration of Mississippi's most storied art form. We'll eat lunch, and afterwards, the CrossRoads. After the CrossRoads, we'll head to Oxford, Faulkner's town. This is where we'll stay the night, enjoy live music, and will eat some of the best fried catfish in Mississippi served in a place you'd drive past if nobody told you to stop. This day will pack a punch.
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This is a big day. We'll leave Oxford and head to Tupelo, Elvis's birthplace. A two room shotgun house where a kid grew up and changed everything. A "lightning in a bottle" moment, waits for you in Tupelo. Then south to Meridian and the MAX--a world-class museum that exists because Mississippi's contributions to arts and entertainment are absurdly outsized for a state this small. After Meridian, we'll head toward Hattiesburg, Robert's hometown. We'll have dinner at the Crescent City Grill and enjoy live music.
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Morning in Hattiesburg and breakfast at Loblolly Bakery. Today, we'll stop at the Seafood Industry Museum and the Ohr O'Keefe museum (the Gehry-designed campus honoring the "Mad Potter of Biloxi"), after which we'll stop at the historic Mary Mahoney's in Biloxi for lunch. We'll cross that Biloxi bridge and head into Ocean Springs, where we'll visit the "Jewel of the Coast", the Walter Anderson museum. We'll have a local seafood dinner that evening, enjoy more live music, and stay in a recently restored historic hotel in Gulfport.
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When we awaken on the Gulf Coast, we'll have a hearty breakfast at The Downtowner, the newest of RSJ's restaurants, just steps from our hotel. We'll then visit the Harbor District. After visiting the harbor, we'll load the bus, go back to Hattiesburg and have a farewell feast before the ride back to Jackson. By now, 40 strangers have become something else. You've shared a bus, a bar, thirteen meals, and a version of Mississippi that most people never get to see. The ride home is quiet. On purpose.
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We load up in Jackson and head straight to the heart of the Delta. We'll hit the BB King Museum--an emotional grounding before Hwy 61, the most famous road in American music. Then we eat at a steakhouse with porterhouses as big as your head, served in a kitchen that hasn't changed in decades. We stay in Cleveland.
BREAKFAST PROVIDEDLUNCH PROVIDEDDINNER PROVIDEDAfter breakfast we head to the Grammy museum, and then McCarty Pottery for a live demonstration of Mississippi's most storied art form. We'll eat lunch, and afterwards, the CrossRoads. After the CrossRoads, we'll head to Oxford, Faulkner's town. This is where we'll stay the night, enjoy live music, and will eat some of the best fried catfish in Mississippi served in a place you'd drive past if nobody told you to stop. This day will pack a punch.
BREAKFAST PROVIDEDLUNCH PROVIDEDDINNER PROVIDEDThis is a big day. We'll leave Oxford and head to Tupelo, Elvis's birthplace. A two room shotgun house where a kid grew up and changed everything. A "lightning in a bottle" moment, waits for you in Tupelo. Then south to Meridian and the MAX--a world-class museum that exists because Mississippi's contributions to arts and entertainment are absurdly outsized for a state this small. After Meridian, we'll head toward Hattiesburg, Robert's hometown. We'll have dinner at the Crescent City Grill and enjoy live music.
BREAKFAST PROVIDEDLUNCH PROVIDEDDINNER PROVIDEDMorning in Hattiesburg and breakfast at Loblolly Bakery. Today, we'll stop at the Seafood Industry Museum and the Ohr O'Keefe museum (the Gehry-designed campus honoring the "Mad Potter of Biloxi"), after which we'll stop at the historic Mary Mahoney's in Biloxi for lunch. We'll cross that Biloxi bridge and head into Ocean Springs, where we'll visit the "Jewel of the Coast", the Walter Anderson museum. We'll have a local seafood dinner that evening, enjoy more live music, and stay in a recently restored historic hotel in Gulfport.
BREAKFAST PROVIDEDLUNCH PROVIDEDDINNER PROVIDEDWhen we awaken on the Gulf Coast, we'll have a hearty breakfast at The Downtowner, the newest of RSJ's restaurants, just steps from our hotel. We'll then visit the Harbor District. After visiting the harbor, we'll load the bus, go back to Hattiesburg and have a farewell feast before the ride back to Jackson. By now, 40 strangers have become something else. You've shared a bus, a bar, thirteen meals, and a version of Mississippi that most people never get to see. The ride home is quiet. On purpose.
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