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cue connoisseurs, civil-rights students and blues-music buffs alike. Follow the Great
River Road south from here through juke-jointed
Clarksdale
, the Civil War battle-
grounds of
Vicksburg
and the antebellum mansions of
Natchez
. It's not far now to
New
Orleans
, where - Hurricane Katrina be damned - you can still hear live jazz, consult
with a voodoo priestess or even ride a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
Begin journeying back east for week three. Wheel along the Gulf Coast to the azalea-
lined boulevards of
Mobile
, then inland to
Montgomery
, where museums honor civil-
rights pioneers like Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city
bus. Fall under the spell of
Savannah
's live oaks and
Charleston
's pastel architecture
and decadent food. Take your pick of
Durham
or
Chapel Hill
, side-by-side university
towns offering groovy nightlife.
Begin week four brushing up on your history in Virginia. Visit
Jamestown
, where
Pocahontas helped the New World's first English settlement survive, then wander
through the 18th century at nearby
Williamsburg
. A pair of big cities completes the
route:
Washington, DC
, is a museum free-for-all, while
Philadelphia
fires up the
Liberty Bell, Ben Franklin and the mighty, meaty cheesesteak. Finally, it's back to the
neon lights of NYC.
