The thoughtful adventures of Man, Woman and Cat.
When I left the Cord museum in Auburn Indiana, it was to hunt down another sort of spinning circle. I had learned there was a windmill museum just a bit up the rural route in Kendallville, and I just had to check it out.
Continue reading “Northern Indiana – Mid-America Windmill Museum”
It was the turn of the century and Americans had begun their love affair with the automobile. Henry Ford would introduce the concept of building cars on an assembly line in 1913, but there were thousands of small local builders across the country making “small batch” automobiles in a fashion not that different than today’s craft beer breweries. Continue reading “Northern Indiana – Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum”
This is a short series of posts about things discovered along the way.
I came to central Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park, and spent a week in the area North of the park but only a day in the cave. This is the part of traveling America I like best – the unplanned adventures and unexpected discoveries that come when you have more than enough time in your schedule for such things to occur organically.
What follows are a series of short passages from this time in the Kentucky hill country:
The Park Service scatters a load of crusher run gravel occasionally on an old road that skirts the North side of the Mammoth Cave property. I suspect the motivation is mostly to allow fire crews to protect the area, but the road also provides access to a few backcountry trailheads and remote cemeteries from before the government acquired the Park.
