Blogs from Indiana, United States, North America - page 32

Eek! Three suitcases later I realize that I've overestimated the size of my luggage and underestimated the size of my Madrid and the Mediterranean wardrobe. I set up this travel blog because I'm going to be all over the place for the next 3-4 months and this is an efficient way of letting everyone know which country I'm in and what I'm up to. I'll be based in Madrid for the fall semester of my junior year. There are about 35 other American University students doing the Madrid and the Mediterranean program with me. Yesterday I received an e-mail of my schedule for the next 3 weeks, but that's all I've been given until I arrive in Madrid. I'll be staying in Madrid Saturday night. On Sunday I leave Madrid for a two week Spanish immersion ... read more

We left our campsite at Evangola State Park and drove on Route 90 through NY, PA, OH and into IN. We went through Erie, PA and Clevland and Toledo, OH. We camped at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. We gained an hour today as we moved in Central Time Zone.... read more

Day 6: We found America for Sierra. The quintessential all-American town is Sidney Nebraska, home of Cabela’s sporting goods. This is another of many dying agricultural towns of the Midwest. Felt like we were driving through a graveyard, with the markers the dead family farms - heritage barns collapsing and paint-peeling houses boarded shut in the midst of GMO corn and other crops planted right through the lawns and up to the doors. Then occasional mega silos and metal warehouse barns signaling the true owners of the prairie. With the fog settled almost on the ground it was just plain spooky and depressing. I wanted to play Ferron for effect, but we settled on boozy Edith Piaf instead. Cabela’s has pulled Sidney up and out, a mega employer like Walmart distribution centers we see. They hire ... read more

Pictures Galore!!! North America » United States » Indiana » Evansville By cubsvssoxJuly 11th 2007Rachel & Sean Hey Folks, Sean and I are now in Evansville preparing for the last of the wedding celebrations, finalizing plans for our trip and relaxing. We spent the past week celebrating the birth of Charlotte Grace in Long Beach. She is healthy, home and unbelievably beautiful. Erika and Andre are ecstatic. We stayed at Maggie's house in Huntington Beach, where it is cool to carry around a parrot that may or may not be pooping down your back all day. On t... read more

Columbus, Indiana is a strange place. It's an industrial, company town, home to Cummins Diesel, that happens to have some of the best architecture in the US. The philanthropist J. Irwin Miller offered to pay the architects' fees for the public buildings, not for their construction expenses. While this arrangement doesn't result in architecture on a monumental scale, it does result in clever solutions to architectural problems faced by many small, American towns. The best buildings in Columbus are Aero Saarinen's North Christian Church and Robert Venturi's Fire Station Number 4. Saarinen's church is a sublime piece of serious, formal modern architecture. The drive across the lawn and through the pew-like parking lot is also something ... read more