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TT Horseshoe Lakes, Indiana.  We departed Spring Valley campground early the next day, around 9am, and headed west on I-70 thru Ohio and into Indiana.  Pretty flat country – really flat, actually – so not much to see from the Interstate.  I-70 is dire need of repairs in several sections, and we saw several construction sites along the way.  The I-270 spur around Columbus, Ohio, is absolutely shameful; a nasty road.  They are trying to fix it, but right now, it’s awful.

We turned off I-70 at Terre Haute, IN, and drove about 18 miles north on State Hiway 41 and eventually 63, to Clinton, IN.  Turned onto County road 163 that brought us into the TT Horseshoe Lakes campground last night about 5pm.  After hitting the pool to cool off, we went a-looking for a local café for a bite to eat.  We drove into the small town of Clinton and found several restaurants, settling on Benjamin’s Family Restaurant on the main street into town off State Hiway 63.  Great food, and great prices!  If in the area, would recommend it.  Hiway 63 in a nice four-lane divided road that connects I-70 at Terre Haute to I-74 as it comes out of Indianapolis headed west.  We also found what looks like a very nice Italian café in Clinton (recommended by a couple of locals we met at a CVS pharmacy), called Terra Villa.  We plan on eating there tonight and celebrate our 3^rd (or is it 37^th, Kip?) wedding anniversary, since we were on the road on July 24^th.  Will let y’all know the results.

Well, that pretty much brings us up to date for now.  We hope to add some pix to accompany this post.  And I promise to try and keep this updated better than I have so far.  Oh, I also discovered that the little Indiana town of Dana (just a few miles from here), is the birthplace of one of my favorite wartime correspondents, Ernie Pyle.  Ernie was born a tenant farmer in 1900, and went on to win fame (and die from a German sniper bullet) as a war reporter in WWII.  His book, “Brave Men,” is still (at least to me) the standard for war reporting.  He lived right alongside the average GI in foxholes, marched with them thru muddy roads, and braved the drudgery of war.  Anyway, I hope to take a picture of a Ernie Pyle rest area or elementary school with our pal, Obidiah, and post it along with this blog post.

So long for now…Denny…Thursday, 26 July 2012