Back on April 28th, I wrote of just returning from a five-day American Road Magazine Forum road trip. This is the shortened version. For the longer, see http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com.
APRIL 24th
Met Pat and Jennifer at Charlie Brown's in Speedway, Indiana (Indianapolis) for breakfast. Try the Charlie Brown omelet. We then took the $3 bus tour around the track of the Indy 500 and paid $3 to go into the museum. This was money well-spent. Lots of history here, even if I'm not much of a race fan.
This is the 100th anniversary of the track and 2011 will be the 100th of the 500 race. I ended up buying more than I intended when I saw this year's race will be on the same day as my birthday.
We then went to Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis which is huge. We saw the graves of John Dillinger (people put coins on it), 23rd President Benjamin Harrison (smaller than what you'd expect), Carl Fisher (founder on the Indy 500 tack, Miami Beach, Montauk, Long Island, Dixie Highway, and Lincoln Highway (in a crypt and nothing to indicate his accomplishments), and, on Strawberry Hill (the highest point in the city) is the grave of the children's poet James Whitcomb Riley which has a great view of downtown Indianapolis.
More to Come. --RoadDog
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Five Days on the Road
I got back last night after another drive in the enjoyable rain, from the Indiana/Illinois line to Joliet and from Elgin to home. It rained the whole trip from Litchfield to home last Sunday, April 19th. I just really LOVES to drive in the rain. Oh, JOY BOUNDLESS!!!
I left home Thursday, April 23rd and took my usual Chicago by-pass, Il-47 to Dwight, Illinois. Then, I drove Il-116 from Saunemin to the state line. In Indiana, I took US-41/US-52 (Yes, that 52 again. We took it earlier in the month from Charleston, SC, to Mount Airy, NC, and then from Huntington, West Virginia to Cincinnati, Ohio.)
I took it to Lafayette and Lebanon, Indiana, and played NTN at a place in each. Then, went to Indianapolis and played at five NTN sites, three of them new. A big one was the 86th Street Pub, which is very often at the top of the top twenty charts.
Spent the night at the Motel 6 and found out the next day that this was in a very dicey area of Speedway. No problems though, and the $36 was a deal.
Friday Coming Up. --RoadDog
I left home Thursday, April 23rd and took my usual Chicago by-pass, Il-47 to Dwight, Illinois. Then, I drove Il-116 from Saunemin to the state line. In Indiana, I took US-41/US-52 (Yes, that 52 again. We took it earlier in the month from Charleston, SC, to Mount Airy, NC, and then from Huntington, West Virginia to Cincinnati, Ohio.)
I took it to Lafayette and Lebanon, Indiana, and played NTN at a place in each. Then, went to Indianapolis and played at five NTN sites, three of them new. A big one was the 86th Street Pub, which is very often at the top of the top twenty charts.
Spent the night at the Motel 6 and found out the next day that this was in a very dicey area of Speedway. No problems though, and the $36 was a deal.
Friday Coming Up. --RoadDog
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