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 After
our friend Bill Warr told us about the Time
Museum, we drove straight to Rockford, Illinois, to visit it. It's
well worth a journey to see the history of chronometry illustrated with
everything from an ancient Chinese waterclock to a hydrogen maser.
Heading into
Indiana, we stopped overnight at Bob & Toni Billetz' Jellystone Campground
near Peru. Jellystone is known far and wide for being a terrific place
to play disc golf.
The instant
communication power of the Internet brought us into contact with Professor
Tom Marvin of Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. His
American Studies class focuses on travel literature this semester, and
we were honored to be guest speakers.
We discovered
a treasure trove of Americana at Hook's
American Drug Store Museum on the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Needless
to say, we discovered a terrific GIZMO,
too!
A drive-by
tour of Indianapolis culminated in a pilgrimage to the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, and then, on the advice of Professor Marvin and his student
John Aguirre, we left town on the road to Bloomington to take Highway
46 through Indiana's picturesque hill country. Moseying through Yellowwood
State Forest and the village of Nashville, we paused appropriately in
Gnaw Bone to buy Marvin some food at the local feed store.
Columbus,
Indiana, is our next stop, and then the Buckeye State beckons!
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