Blogs from Indiana, United States, North America - page 2

This trip is drawing to a close. We left Terre Haute and simply planned on driving till we got home. We stopped for gas and bathroom breaks. Here are my thoughts as we came home today..... This trip is coming to a close. We rode nearly 9000 miles together in 3 weeks. We talked along the way of our experiences on this trip....what we loved, what we didn’t love, what was our favorite, what was our least favorite, and what we would do differently. We all agreed we loved this trip. It was an education. We’ve seen which state grow what crops and who has to irrigate. We’ve seen the terrain change from state to state. We’ve seen land that looked like it was good for nothing...particularly on the Indian Reservations (no wonder they hated us)! ... read more

We have stopped at a couple of pretty, small towns as we continue our adventure up the Ohio. Huntington on Saturday is the end of our journey and then we turn around and sail back to Cincinnati on Sunday. Unfortunately we are also making preparations for disembarking on Monday. Our journey is almost over! Along the river bank and bluffs are many large houses contrasted with trailer parks on lower ground. Some have their own jetties and it’s evident there is more leisure activities. On the other side of the river yesterday was Madison, so we were in Indiana not Kentucky. A very pretty town, most of which was moved to higher ground after the huge flood of 1937. Madison was so small we could walk around to few blocks dashing from shady tree to building ... read more

We stayed the night at Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Indiana, close to the location where Abraham Lincoln lived from age 7 to age 20. We stayed in Gobblers Run Campground, which is a tent-only campground. It’s connected to another campground that allows RVs and motorhomes. Gobblers Run was very quiet. We ended up with a site near the restrooms, and there was no one else camped on our stretch of campground. We could relax and let the kids run and explore. Well, within limits. There was a lot of poison ivy on the edge of the forest behind the campsites, so they couldn’t go close to the forest! We were happy with the campground overall. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted most of the photos I took of the campground area. We woke up early this ... read more

Since we’re now on the final leg of our trip, I can muse on the road part of this road trip. At one point, Tom said, “This would be a great trip except for the roads.” Sometimes they were good, sometimes terrible, sometimes they didn’t exist at all. Sometimes drivers were good, sometimes terrible, and – sometimes – we were all alone, which was lovely. We had plenty of time to talk as we drove, and grouped the challenges of this road trip into groups: · Road conditions: once you get off the US interstate highways, you’re on two-lane roads. The trans-Canada highway is not a limited access highway. Chip-and-tar surfaces are common, as is a type of dirt and gravel that dries into concrete in your wheelwells. Road construction is crammed into the few warm ... read more

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana The geographical focus for this trip is the Great Lakes Region. And, as part of that, I expected to learn more about how they were carved out by glaciers and how those glaciers were responsible for most of the geology of the area. Even expected to see some of the oldest rocks on the planet as the North American craton, the original core of the continent, created billions of years ago, is exposed in places nearby. I also expected to to learn about the French and fur traders who were the original explorers of the area. What I did not expect, though, was the political history we picked up yesterday at this bucket list item, and the reason for our stop here in southern Indiana. George Rogers Clark ... read more