Main Street Vincennes, Indiana. Our truck is bottom right.
Main Street Vincennes, Indiana. Our truck is bottom right.
Colorful building, Vincennes, Indiana.
Inside Charlie's Smorgasbord, Vincennes, Indiana.
Patriotic customer in Charlie's Smorgasbord, Vincennes, Indiana.
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Day's Narrative: Schedule Aug. 31, Sunday -- Owensboro, Kentucky. It's really nice to have a day to poke around a town and to catch up on sleep and all those TV programs you would never watch otherwise. I went to the bicycle shop here this morning and they have almost exclusively mountain bikes. That's not unusual. I read somewhere recently that road bicycles account for 7% of the bicycle sales in the US. We toured the town. Then had lunch at Charlie's Smorgasbord in the local shopping center. See photos above. Tomorrow I start out early for Owensboro, Kentucky. It's 88 miles (142 km) on scenic State Road 61. We drove a couple of miles down it this morning, and it looks like it will be a great ride. [Connie]Every once in a while on this trip, I have a moment of what, I think, amounts to culture shock. Occasionally, I have a flashing thought that if I say something to someone in this place, (wherever it is) they will know that I'm a foreigner, not that it really matters. The Midwest, even though it is part of our cultural heritage via books and television is, in its reality, foreign to me. It's all the United States, they have no accent perceptible to me, so I should have none for them. No one has ever been unkind to us -- I think it's just a factor of how different the desert Southwest and Rocky Mountain areas and people are from this "heartland" area. It is a reminder that the U.S. is, after all, a giant melting pot of nationalities and settlements by various Europeans. Different areas are a result of their settlers. Vincennes was founded in 1732, making it 265 years old. Los Alamos, while unusually young at 54 years, has a near neighbor, Espanola, which will celebrate its 400th anniversary next year. The nearby indigenous Indian pueblos are probably at least 700 years old. As we drove out State Road 61 today, I could only marvel at how pretty it was, with huge leafy trees growing on either side of the road with their tops almost touching across the road. If you've noticed how often I mention things like trees and green things, you've noticed some part of the geographical differences between what I've grown up with and its opposite here. © Ray & Connie Poore, 1997
Sep. 1, Labor Day Monday -- layover in Owensboro.
Sep. 2, Tuesday -- arrive Munfordville, Kentucky.
Sep. 3-7, layover in Munfordville, Kentucky.
Sep. 8, Monday -- leave for North Carolina.Return