| Re: Summer 2015 Vacation |
Subject: Re: Summer 2015 Vacation by teebee on 2015/7/6 2:46:48 Well, today was spent driving. We left daughters house in KC about 6:30 and headed east. By-passed downtown St. Louis around the north and continued east through Illinois and into Indiana. Followed I70 until we got to Indianapolis and again by-passed the downtown area around the south and met up with I69 going north. Stopping in Fort Wayne for the night. I will say that I used to think that Missouri had bad roads....not anymore, they have put quite an effort into making I70 a pretty nice road. Not a lot of construction. I70 in Illinois on the other hand, was pretty rough, they are however trying to fix it. Which means lots of construction zones. Thankfully it was Sunday and they weren't working so they allow normal speeds. Coming home will probably be a different story (stay tuned for that chapter). Indiana roads were a little bit better, some construction, but not as bad of condition as Ill. We did make our first stop at Effingham, IL at Mid-America Motorworks. The museum hasn't changed much, a couple new cars in there a few cars I remember were gone. So I guess it's like most museums, changing things around to make it interesting. I had to take the opportunity to take a picture of the Corvette in front of the vintage gas station.   Once we got to Fort Wayne we got in touch with CaptMike and met for supper. What a great guy, and Mrs. Mike too.We talked for about an hour and a half, before we decided we better call it a night.  It really great to be able to meet in person, members of the community. Tomorrow we are stopping in Auburn at the Auburn/Cord/Dusenburg museum and then on north to visit a member of another forum and friend from Colorado Springs, now living in Michigan. |
