Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Stayed in Greenfield, IN, just before Indianapolis on I70. Got up to a beautiful morning sunny and in the 50’s.
We discussed if we should take the time to try to view Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) when a gal from the hotel mentioned that there would be 50,000 kids from FFA here for a convention but she said the convention center was on the other side of the city so we should be ok.
We took off and saw a sign that said construction delays on the road we wanted to take so we plugged the address into TomTom and took off thru the city. Got there with no wrong turns. But we saw hundreds of kids waiting in line for tours. Well I wanted to at least see the gift shop so we made our way inside and stopped at the desk to ask if we could get tickets for a tour. She immediately recognized that we’d need a handicap bus and called out to see if one was available. But they were all already on the track. Then she called someone else and next thing we knew we were asked if we had our own handicap vehicle so she was trying to find a bus driver to take us. None were available. So she says wait one more minute we are going to get a CD you can play as you drive. We looked at each other with our mouths open. A wonderful lady named Ellen came out and said she would ride with us. (Doug had to hustle to repack the car to make room for her!) Apparently she had some pull because every time we got stopped she just said “tell
them Ellen sa
id it’s ok”
Stayed in Greenfield, IN, just before Indianapolis on I70. Got up to a beautiful morning sunny and in the 50’s.
We discussed if we should take the time to try to view Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) when a gal from the hotel mentioned that there would be 50,000 kids from FFA here for a convention but she said the convention center was on the other side of the city so we should be ok.
We took off and saw a sign that said construction delays on the road we wanted to take so we plugged the address into TomTom and took off thru the city. Got there with no wrong turns. But we saw hundreds of kids waiting in line for tours. Well I wanted to at least see the gift shop so we made our way inside and stopped at the desk to ask if we could get tickets for a tour. She immediately recognized that we’d need a handicap bus and called out to see if one was available. But they were all already on the track. Then she called someone else and next thing we knew we were asked if we had our own handicap vehicle so she was trying to find a bus driver to take us. None were available. So she says wait one more minute we are going to get a CD you can play as you drive. We looked at each other with our mouths open. A wonderful lady named Ellen came out and said she would ride with us. (Doug had to hustle to repack the car to make room for her!) Apparently she had some pull because every time we got stopped she just said “tell
them Ellen sa
id it’s ok” So bottom line is WE GOT TO DRIVE OURSELVES AROUND THE IMS TRACK!!!! It was very cool. We saw the winners circle, and I took a picture of the bricks at the start/finish line. The backstretch was soo long. We went down pit lane and I told Doug not to speed. (see picture) Actually we only went 20mph. There’s a lot of history there, the track is 100 years old. A lot of the stands are rusty and the track was not as wide as I expected it would be but overall it was still pretty exciting. Two other employees couldn't believe they let us do that, they said that rarely happens.
So we finished up the day just outside of St Louis, MO. Weather got up to 70 yesterday and today. Not too bad!
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