You still feel it there, mostly because it hasn’t changed all that much. Sure there are different buildings, and different people, different conditions all around… but the poverty is there, underlying it all. “When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues…”—part of some old blues song, can’t remember which

Do visit all the places mentioned, and also don’t miss the Shack Up Inn… if you are passing through, you gotta stay there.