Elwyn and I left Brodak's at 3 pm and headed west on I-70, hoping to make it to Saint Louis. 70 miles outside of Indianapolis, we get a call from my wife Ruby who had just gotten a call from Joe Gilbert who was 26 miles from Indy at a dead standstill in traffic. He told Ruby to tell us to go south to hwy 40 and go east into Indy. We did that, and the going was slow. There was a farm town every 5 miles. We saw a lot of old buildings, and in one of the towns there was a church that was HUGE. I would like to hear the story on that one. We called Joe after an hour, and he said the traffic jam had been caused by road construction that started about 27 miles from Indy, continued through the town, and went on for 55 miles west on Indy on I-70.
We finally headed north and got on I-70, went slowly through town and finally started to get away from the construction barrels. I said "we are lucky, Elwyn, I haven't seen any roadkill deer". 5 seconds later, we saw a roadkilled deer. 10 seconds later, we saw the yellow diamond shaped sign with a leaping deer in it! We went south 30 miles before we found a motel. We must have seen several thousand orange construction barrels. We think that the Indiana DOT has a large ranch were they grow these things. They should be the state tree of Indiana!
We got into the motel around midnight.
Topic: The ride home from Brodaks saturday June 15 (Read 1664 times)