Crabfest '09 in Ft. Wayne, IN

My friend Pam and I went on a road trip to Ft. Wayne. Why, you say? To see Captain Phil from the tv show Deadliest Catch and to eat king crab!

It sure was a blast. We got there and saw him standing on the sidewalk in the front of the building. After waiting to get in we finally did. There was a dj from one of the Ft. Wayne radio stations doing a q&a with the captain and audience members.

I was lucky enough to get choosen to ask a question! How cool is that?

US NATIONALS on Saturday

 

 

 

 

Lily House

 

 

 

 

Indianapolis Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

More from the road

 

 

 

 

On the road

 

 

 

Some covered bridge pictures

 

 

 

 

Rockville, IN

 

Well..............

854 miles, 3 Harley dealerships and 4 scrapbook stores later, we're home!
We got home Sunday evening.

We left Indianpolis Sunday morning road to Marion (dealership was closed), then to Wabash. Brandts dealership was open and it was pretty neat in there. They have an antique motorcycle collection that is open to the public.

Road towards Plymouth where I had to stop at The Memory Zone. The tone there was sad as this past week it was announced that they will be closing in Dec.

We took hwy 6 to Walkerton. There I topped off my gas tank and we put on rain suits.
Rained from Walkerton to Westville. Not bad just annoying. Mostly we worried about how slick the road would be. Pretty good weather for being gone 8 days. This was the only rain. Actually the weather was perfect this week, not too hot and not too cold. Only had to wear chaps one moring.

Steve is back to work today. I have to go grocery shopping, laundry is calling and I want to get pictures loaded for you to see.

Dreaming of where to go next.
Thanks for reading.

Indianapolis Museum of Art and Lily House

Today we went to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the J. Lily House.
We spent alot of time looking at art from 1300's to modern. European and American (skipped the Asian).
This is a free art museum so, if you are ever in Indy looking for something to do, I'd recommend it.
On the same grounds is the Lily House and gardens. The Lily that bought it from the original owner Landon, was the grandson of Col. Lily that started the pharmaceutical company.
Pretty awesome to be rich that's for sure. The original owner was head of the Indianapolis Water Co. They really promoted the gardens but the house was our favorite.
More picture taking opportunities.

Steve and Ian are going to the U.S. Nationals (NHRA) drag races tomorrow. I am not!
I am going to check out some scrapbook stores though. :o)
They will have to take pictures there.

We'll be heading home Sunday by way of Marion and Wabash and then northwest on home.

It's been a fun week of riding but was happy for a couple of days of "rest".

We're back in Indy

Let's see where did I leave off.............

We got to Ian's last night (Thurs) and went to Skyline Chili for supper (yum).

Our riding yesterday was a mixture of roads. We look off north and east of Bloomington on county roads that were recommended routes to us. Really nice except for the locals that are in a hurry around curves and up hills.

We went around Lemmon Lake and saw some of the biggest lily pads ever. No place to pull over, lake houses in the way.

Stopped in a town called Bean Blossom (truly, that was the name), went into the little grocery store for some water and I got a compliment on my bike color from the bread delivery man.

We road back to Nashville to check out some shops since it was daylight they where open. I even found a scrapbook/stamp store! We went in and I dropped a little $$.
I got a covered bridge die cut, motorcycle stamp and a covered bridge stamp. Went to three leather shops. Now tell me, how can one tiny town who's busy season is Oct. support three leather shops??? The first one had nice things that they made on site but was it pricey. The other two weren't as bad. Steve did buy a pair of chaps.
Have you ever had apple butter ice cream? We did. Had it at Miller's ice cream shop it was really good (on a sugar cone, of course).

Left Nashville and road over to Columbus. We got messed up with the roads and had to take 65. I don't like semi's passing me that's for sure. But we did it and made it to the HD dealer there.

Going to hang out round here today. I think we are going to go to the Eli Lily house at the Indianapolis Art Museum. Steve took Ian to work so we could have the car and not ride in the city.

Talk to you all soon...........

Still on the road

Hope you all haven't been waiting too long...........
I've been without a working laptop since my last post and I'm not sure what's up with it.
Anyway, here's an update.

On Monday we left Indy and road west to Parke Co. to a town called Rockville. It's the the starting point for all the covered bridge routes.
We where able to get a room at a nice quasi B&B. The lady was really friendly and the room (suite) was very comfortable. I say quasi because there was no breakfast just some coffee and rolls, which was fine since the room was only $50.00. She let us park the bikes on her lawn.

We did see lots of covered bridges. Not all but a good portion. We even road across a couple of them. I would never want to be down there during covered bridge fest though. Ten days off people and higher prices from what everyone was telling us.

From there we road to Terre Haute. Nice short ride from Rockville. We went to a HD dealer there and had lunch at a Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant. We had the crab burgers, yummmmm. And have to support crab fishermen, right?

After lunch we road down though Bloomington and on to Nashville. They roll up the streets there early. Not much open. We did find New Moon Pizza and the guy there says that they are gearing up for their busy season -- October. Spent the night and got up today and road south.
Through the National Forest. Nice twisty, curvy roads, that was fun. We road down to Salem and had lunch. Followed a pumpkin truck fully loaded into town. Took some pictures of the courthouse there. Took some back roads back up north. They were so back that the GPS didn't know where we were. Through a different part of the National Forest and stopped at the Monroe Reservoir too. Took some more pictures. We are staying in Bloomington tonight. Did so much riding that when we got to the hotel we had chinese delivered because we didn't want to go out again.....that's pretty bad.

So, what did we see today (well I did Steve missed them) a field with wild turkeys in it. Cool. No deer today, that was yesterday while I was leading (figures).
Saw hawks today.
Yesterday and today we passed Amish horse and buggies.

I'm going on a mission when I get home. I want to find out if you can mount a camera on a bike. There must be a way to take a picture while riding. There where sometimes where it would have come in handy. By the time you stop, get off, get the camera out the shot is gone.

Steve asked me tonight which I like better, riding together on one bike or separate.
I really had to think hard about this as there are advantages and dis-advantages to both. One thing I don't like about being on two is I can't talk to him until we stop. But we are taking turns leading and that's working out pretty well. I am use to riding behind him but I'm getting use to riding up front and it's not too bad.

We're going to go back to Ian's tomorrow (Thurs) and see what the weather has in-store for the weekend. We have to be home by Sunday so Steve can get back to work on Monday.

I'll post more soon. Thanks for reading.