Monday, May 4, 2009
New Vision RV Park, Oaktown, IN: Apr 8-9
This Passport America park is located by an attractive lake but is also unfortunately situated by a busy highway & railroad. This was the first time the new cats had experienced train noise, and they did not like it one bit. We also didn't like that the park offered us a pull-through without warning us that they are $3 more than back-ins. It rained most of the time we were here, but it poured when we were setting up & leaving.
We spent our free day visiting Vincennes, which is the oldest city in Indiana (1732). Doug thought that spoke pretty poorly for IN that a city on the western border was oldest until Willie pointed out that the early settlers traveled by river, and that Vincennes sits on the Wabash. Vincennes was the home of William Henry Harrison, who seems to be in everyone's family tree and is most noted for his 2-hour presidential inaugural speech delivered without hat or coat on a cold, wet day, and dying from pneumonia 32 days later. Young male residents of Vincennes carry on this less than intelligent legacy by buying enormous trucks with loud exhaust systems and racing up & down the city's thoroughfares. Even little compact cars had loud mufflers!
We spent our free day visiting Vincennes, which is the oldest city in Indiana (1732). Doug thought that spoke pretty poorly for IN that a city on the western border was oldest until Willie pointed out that the early settlers traveled by river, and that Vincennes sits on the Wabash. Vincennes was the home of William Henry Harrison, who seems to be in everyone's family tree and is most noted for his 2-hour presidential inaugural speech delivered without hat or coat on a cold, wet day, and dying from pneumonia 32 days later. Young male residents of Vincennes carry on this less than intelligent legacy by buying enormous trucks with loud exhaust systems and racing up & down the city's thoroughfares. Even little compact cars had loud mufflers!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 10:11 PM 
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