INDIANAPOLIS
...........is in 15 days, and I was there last week so we stray away from the macabre to discuss scenes from Indiana. But first, I promised you some dirt on Ol Davy Crockett. When I was in San Antonio I read about him and his last days at the Alamo. I knew he did not die standing at the top of the wall swinging his musket, here is what I found.............Sorry, it appears as though he surrendered and then was executed. Santa Ana was disgusted with all of the defenders who did surrender and had them quickly killed, as he had promised: "no prisoners."
Now on to pictures:here are some GOAT candidates. Lewis is in the top 5 as is Mike, not sure about the kickball player, Brady: I think so. But it is all opinion.
It always amazed me how narrow this circuit is, in the photograph you can see the inside stands and the outside ones, there is a pit road and a racetrack between them.
Indiana Military Museum, this is a Sherman tank from WW2, we were told not to touch.
Vincennes is the home of this funny man, there are lots of shrines around town for him.
Before I left town I had an early dinner, St. Elmo's is hard to beat.
As noted on the car's halo: and yes it is, 2 weekends til green flag.
Before we sign off, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jim Nabors for his final performance of that song that is stuck in my brain, from 2014 (and we were there), and don't forget to sing along:
From a faithful and now contributing reader, the grave site of the greatest horse of all time:
And since we are getting close and this after all this is a macabre blog, next week I will add some gory pics from the bad things that happened at the track. You arrrrrrrrrrrre welcome.
