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Saturday, November 23, 2013

MORE TO-DO IN INDIANAPOLIS

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  1. The tourist bureau should hire you. I had no idea there were so many things to do. Nap town?? Now there must be a story behind that.

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    1. Sherry, there is even more. All I have blogged about thus far is within about a square mile!

      Yep there is a story behind Indy being called Nap Town. Before the Indianapolis revitalization projects, there was not much to do other than attend movies, and the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race the end of May and attend the Indianapolis Indians baseball games in the summer.

      The city was becoming a ghost town with the urban crawl spreading miles from the city. Now, Indianapolis is hosts to very large conventions at the Convention Center that was enlarged when the Hoosier Dome / RCA Dome was torn down after the building of the Lucas Oil Stadium. (Thanks to the success of the Indianapolis Colts led by Peyton Manning.

      Indianapolis is much a forward thinking city. People are restoring the older sections of the city and moving back. Old buildings have been transformed to luxury lofts etc. Our youngest daughter bought a 125 year old home in the Heron Morton Area of Indianapolis, just 20 blocks from the center of the city.

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  2. Thanks...I had no idea there was so much to do there! I want to go to the Nascar race at Indy one day so now I am thrilled we could park and stay awhile!

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    1. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the Brickyard 400 is run has a lot just for campers. There are no hook-ups though and people can stay only around race time.

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  3. Now that Canal Walk does looks interesting.
    Maybe have to make a point of stopping in the area, next time we head that way.

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  4. The canal and walking trails look similar to San Antonio's Riverwalk.

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    1. We have yet to go to San Antonio, but I imagine their Riverwalk is much larger.

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  5. Amazing photos of Indianapolis. Who knew?

    Nan, I'm finding the text (black background and grey fonts) a little hard to read. Is this something new on your blog?

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    1. Indianapolis is an amazing city.

      The text and black background will not be kept. It was blogger's idea a driving me whacky. If you notice, the text of the blog could not go to the margins either. I tried to change the font color and the right margin...no luck. Thanks for the comment, Rick.

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  6. Loved the tour. Definitely a place to spend some time exploring. As long as the weather is good and there is NO snow.

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    1. This is not a good place to visit in the winter. When we had the Super Bowl here, we were blessed with spring-like temps. But that was very unusual.

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  7. Love this post!! I'm looking forward to returning to Indianapolis to see all these sights and maybe kayak in the canal!! Thanks for more great touring!

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