Road Trip---Day 8

Beautiful day in Indianapolis today.  Just great.  We had our breakfast at the hotel and headed over to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame and Museum.  We took the lap ride around the track in the bus and the museum tour, but passed on the infield, gasoline alley, scorers table etc. part of the tour.  The lap was real interesting, saw the movie in the museum, then took some time to lok at the cars they have on display there.  I thought it was real interesting.  Even the Mrs. liked it.

Next we headed over to President Benjamin Harrison's home.  Not difficult to find, but we couldn't decide if we wanted to pop for the tour or not.  It's just his home, and how many of these places do you need to see?  Well, we finally decided to go, and I sure am glad we did.  Many original pieces of furniture and pictures and the like, and our tour guide was excellent.  I learned a lot about B. Harrison's presidency, and also some about his personal life.  It was very interesting.  Made a half hearted attempt to find his grave site, but the signage is kind of lacking so we decided to hit the road. 

We had lunch in Danville, Indiana at a place called Mayberry.  Yup, you guessed it, an Andy Griffen themed restaurant.  The food was real good, the people were awful nice, and they played Ang shows the whole time we were there.  A fun stop.

Off to covered bridge land!  Kind of headed cross country to see what we could see.  Lots of corn.  And I thought a lot of motorcycles.  The scenery was nice, it was a good day for a ride out in the country.  We found one covered bridge (maps were tough to follow).  We decided to keep head west into Illinois to see what we could see.

And we couldn't decide where to go.  We got our hour back, so it was relatively early.  Didn't want to go to Chicago.  Couldn't think of anywhere to go in the middle of the state.  So what to do?  I finally suggested Door County--yup, Door County.  So we're heading north.  Made it to Menomonee Falls, so we decided to stay at the house.  How convenient. But we're not done yet----still have a week of vacation left!!!