Still in Indianapolis on the 24th.
Next we stopped at a marker to show where US-421 (from Michigan City, Indiana, and Wilmington, NC) intersected.
We then drove the National Road/US-40 eastward to Ohio. We stopped in Knightstown, Indiana, and went into the high school gym where the movie "Hoosiers" was filmed. It is open to the public and no one was there. Pat nailed all sorts of baskets while I managed 100% air balls. Never was any good at b-ball. Guess I'll have to re-watch the movie now. Saw that Kent and Sue from St. Louis had been there before us.
Drove by the Madonna of the Trail in Richmond, to the Golden Inn right across the state line in New Paris, Ohio, where we spent the night and met up with the rest of the cruisin' crew.
This is a true 50s roadside motel, reasonable, clean, and operated by a husband-wife team. I highly recommend it. I drove back into Richmond and played NTN at BW3 and talked with a guy who was running a dog show on Saturday. Later that night, the motel "went to the dogs" as a lot of folks in the dog show stayed there.
We drove a mile or so north and had some really fine bbq at Baumbach's. Outstanding pulled pork and not only did they have a baked sweet potato for a side, but sweet potato fries as well. I got both. I also liked their jalapeno jelly (sounds bad, but it is really good. And I ESPECIALLY liked their $1 bottles of Dixie Beer, always the beer of the house.
The place is fairly new, but who needs history with food like that!!
Back to the Golden Inn and had a roadie gabfest out by Denny's room. This is one of my favorite parts of any cruise, just sitting there drinking and talking with like-minded folk.
Cruisin' the National, Joe's, Pennsylvania House Coming. --Cooter
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