We left a little before 9AM to begin our trip. The weather was warm and muggy and there was a thick haze all over. Carrie started off driving and she was able to back out of the driveway, with a little help, and we were on our way. Jason spent the first 30 minutes or so locating all the squeaks, rattles, and knocks before settling down to hook-up the computer mapping software and the GPS. Didn’t take long to get it going, however, the software kept trying to route us onto back roads for the last 100 miles of travel for [View Full Entry]

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Cool morning, beautiful sunrise. What a great way to wake up and face the new day. Showers, breakfast, a morning walk and we are off on the second day of our great adventure. Leaving Lake Erie State Park behind us, we passed through “wine country” Dave thought, as we drove along the Erie shores and noticed lots of grape vines growing on trellises. Once on Route 90 we headed west for a lunch date with two wonderful people, Ken and Janice. Ken and Janice are full-time RV’ers who happen to be staying in Oregon, Ohio doing some bird watching. When they [View Full Entry]

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Running and traveling are my passions. Naturally, one of my dreams is to run races in different places. Running with a camera in my Race-Ready shorts is no longer a daunting task. After all, you can't never anticipate what you will see on a race course. Indianapolis is well know for its Speedway. In the running community, it is also well known for the annual sell-out event, the One America 500 Festival Mini Marathon. It is the largest half marathon in the U.S. I came for the opportunity to run a lap on the famous speedway just 3 weeks before drivers [View Full Entry]

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Straight to the track this morning ! The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track, where they run the Indianapolis 500 each May, the biggest event on the American Racing calander. The Formula One was also run there. We took a drive around the track in a bus, the tour guide gave us a good run for our $3.00 entry ticket. The museum has many of the winning cars from the previous 500 races. All in pristine condition, Geoff's favourite were the cars from the 1930's. The whole complex is fully enclosed and is the size of a suburb at home. We drove into [View Full Entry]

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We took the scenic route along the Ohio river into downtown Louisville. Crossed the river into Indiana to see the Old Ohio Falls and the exposed fossil beds.. 350m years old. Back again into Kentucky to see the paddlesteamers in the port of Louisville, where we had a great lunch of shrimp and crab at "Joes Crab Shack" the best we've had, ever... I think ! We had a great surprise waiting for us at Church Hill Downs, the racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is run (in 2 days time).... there was a race meeting on, so we joined the crowd, [View Full Entry]

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As of tomorrow I leave in two weeks. I am exited about my trip. I have bought just about everything that I need. I even found my Euros I have from when I went to England ten years ago! I can't believe it has been that long since I have needed a passport to go anywhere! I have planned out what Stephanie and I will be doing while in Athens. I probably have planned too much but once we get there we will just take it a day at a time. We are planning on seeing many museums in Athens as [View Full Entry]

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Church this morning. Mostly a proper church. Worship was good, though I only knew one of the songs. The message was different than I’m used to, so I didn’t follow it so well, but other liked it. It was fun to see the kids again after a few days. They did a few songs. After church, we loaded up the bus and headed to Sandi Patty’s house. Yep. She had us over to play and have dinner. Very fun. We were supposed to swim but it was too rainy. The kids LOVED playing Wii though. They were crazy! Sandi and her [View Full Entry]

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We had to get up a bit earlier today. So we could… I’m not really sure why. We went to Denny’s for Kyle and Anne to get something to eat, then we got Sharye and went into town. Indianapolis, that is. We wandered around the mall for a bit, where Sarah and I ended up in a bookstore. Imagine that. There’s this great chocolate place where we all met and had chocolate fondue. Yum. It was pretty amazing. Then we all went back to the bookstore. Sarah and I had some stimulating conversation, and I bought a new book (as I [View Full Entry]

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Show this morning. Good. The crew was great all through the two days, but not so good at following directions on the out, kinds of got us out of order. Oh well. We made it. Kyle and I had some zillions of phone calls to make, so I accompanied him in the truck. We got several advances done, which was great, and then sang and chatted a lot. We stopped in Edinburgh to pee. Edinburgh, Indiana, that is. We were only in two states- Kentucky and Indiana. We drove through several places it had flooded and was still quite wet. We [View Full Entry]

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My alarm went off this morning at 10. It’s just a ringer on my phone, but it’s always the same ringer. My first thought was, “I bet it’s one of those stinking kids and there will be no one on the other line!” Like a prank call. Funny. There was in fact no one on the other line, but there wasn’t supposed to be. I got some work done this morning, emails and phone calls and whatnot. Then we all went to Starbucks and lunch. Came back to the hotel for more work and lots of reading. Sarah and Kyle were [View Full Entry]

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