When Janett and I drove to Columbus IN to see her sisters over the Memorial day weekend, we got a headstart by driving to Lafayette Thursday night, where we ate a late dinner off the senior's menu at Ihop. I liked that a lot better than standing in line for half an hour on a Sunday morning to get an omelette.
The next morning, instead of getting back on 65 we drove south on 231 to enjoy the countryside. We went a little out of our way following the signs to Cataract Falls.
Janett got to try out her new camera getting nice shots of the "largest waterfalls in Indiana". I'll get a couple photos from her and post them.
South of Greencastle, maybe around Spencer the topography changed from Illinois flat to Kentucky hilly, and since it hard to farm on the side of a hill, it was woodsy with several state parks along the route. Driving through Bloomington was a nuisance, but coming out the other side was really nice. Heading east toward Columbus we drove through towns like Little Nashville and Gnaw Bone, which reinforced the feeling that we could have been further south than we actually were.
It was raining that day and we noticed streams and lakes were over their banks. Also a lot of fields hadn't been planted. Even for soy beans it was getting late. We figured the fields must be too wet for the tractors.
I guess they've gotten a lot of rain since then, including 10" in a single day this past weekend. I don't know where they'll put all the water. Maybe we should buy some soy beans.
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2 comments:
Some of my favorite wine comes from Bloomington, IN. I hope the price doesn't go up if the vines were damaged in all the rains they've been having.
All this rain is crazy! Mark's Mom is going to have a hard time getting home because of all the roads closed in Iowa!
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