2013 Yellowstone and Beyond - Part 5 - Indy- Louisville

Saying goodbye to Iowa, we headed toward Indianapolis. Beverly, our resident campground booking agent, found us a spot in Thorntown, IN.  We left I-74 and turned onto a very small, curvy, one-lane, sometimes dirt road covered by overhanging trees and surrounded by corn fields. As we traveled down this little backwoods looking trail of a road we thought we heard "Dueling Banjos" (if you're to young to get this reference, it means "very scary") and we really questioned her choice of campgrounds. We finally arrived and it was nice but kind of strange.  We had never seen as many golf carts in one place as we saw there.  It appeared that if you were seasonal (stayed there for extended periods of time) you had to have a golf cart and ride around in the evening snubbing those that were overnighting. It was quite comical to watch.

Thornton was having it's annual "Festival of the Turning Leaves", so naturally we had to go.  It started on Friday with garages sales that Larry and David had to check out. On Saturday we checked out the vendor booths, had a bite to eat from the food court and listened to some local talent perform. We found a cool (shady) spot to see the parade. Well.....there were no marching bands, floats or even decorated trucks with trailers, but mostly parade officials and political opponents campaigning.   There were a dozen or so antique tractors, some being pulled by others, that were very cool. This was followed by a large Frito-Lay truck from which they were throwing bags of Doritos.  Bringing up the rear were what we thought must be every emergency vehicle in the area.





We took a day trip into Indianapolis and toured the Motor Speedway and Museum.

It was very interesting seeing past winners cars, innovations through the years and the history of the track. We even took a lap around the track. No, it wasn't in a race car (it was a bus) but it was fun anyway. 
 
We headed toward Louisville, KY stopping for the night in a park in Indiana. While pulling into our parking spot and missing a tree by mere inches, we clipped a water spigot, which caused a geyser to rival many we saw in Yellowstone. While the campground host was busy looking around for a pipe wrench, David calmly pulled his out and cut off the water. "Be prepared" is our motto.  

Before leaving this area, we made a trip to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory Tour. Very interesting to see how bats are made and bats and other memorabilia in the Museum. We each left with a souvenir miniature bat.