Last Thursday, we traveled from Lexington to Indianapolis. Our destination was Heartland RV Resort just outside of Indianapolis. I looked up the park in the Garmin and it was actually listed so I selected it and hit go. When we got to Greenfield, IN, where the park is located, all seemed well. We soon found out that “Mrs. Hunter” (the handle we have affectionately given our GPS) had decided the park was located in the middle of a field about 5 miles from where it was actually located. We then proceeded to drive about 10 miles, the wrong direction, in search of the park. I should mention here that when one is driving a 42 foot vehicle with a car on behind, being lost and driving on narrow country roads through corn fields is not a fun thing. Anyway, we finally found our destination about 30 minutes later than we intended to. The “resort” wasn’t a bad place if one is there for summer activities, but the camping area was somewhat run down and just so-so. Probably not one we will put on our list of future places to go.
On Friday, we made the short drive to Indianapolis Motor Speedway to go through the museum and hopefully get a glimpse of the track. I had looked at their website and it said there would be only two days for track tours in April and the dates had already passed. When we got there, however, we found out they actually were giving shuttle bus rides around the track, so that was the first order of business. We can now add to our resume that we have actually been “on” the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Seeing the track from that perspective was a real eye-opener as to what an enormous facility Indy is and the history that has taken place there seemed to come to life as we rode around the track. After the track tour, we went through the museum which took us from the roots of the Indy 500 to present day. The huge display of cars, trophy’s, pictures, and numerous other memorabilia from all eras of the sport was very interesting and impressive. This was another stop we are glad we made.
Saturday we were in Joliet, IL at the RV Park at Argosy Empress Riverboat Casino. The park there has only electric and water hookups, but is a very nice park with lots of green grass and large sites. We stayed here before about 3 or 4 years ago. We paid a visit to the casino and actually walked out of there with some of their money! What a rare treat that was! Another real treat was that the casino was ALL non-smoking. Apparently the state of Illinois has adopted a wide-sweeping non-smoking law.
On Monday we headed off to Wisconsin to begin our trek west across the northern states on our way to Washington. We have no specific destinations in mind except that Wisconsin and Minnesota are two of the four states we have not yet been to, so we can fill up two more holes on our US Map. It looks like there may be a little snow in our future, but nothing that looks too threatening.
Driving down the front straightaway
The start/finish line is all that remains of the
original brick track
Entrance to the famous "gasoline alley"
"The Pagoda" houses timing, scoring, media
