Indianapolis 2014

Indianapolis 2014

On the Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y

I watched Doctor Strangelove on the flightwhile Jeanie studied her watercolor magazines

Outstanding sausage patties!

Marriott Courtyard

Genuine Comfort Food!

Frisco Melt

Hall of Fame Museum

1911 Winner

2011 Winner

100 Years

The Borg-Warner Trophy

Indy 500 finish line with bricks

Trader’s Point Creamery

On the evening of Aug. 29, 2014, a young woman matching descriptions posted elsewhere on this site came to our door in Indianapolis with the story that she is an aerospace engineering student at Purdue University.  She claimed, simillarly to other stories posted about a woman almost certainly her, that she and a group of engineering students were trying to raise the last $10,000 needed for them to travel to Seattle, WA to work on the restoration of a P-51D WWII fighter aircraft that had been "recovered from the Baltic."  She claimed that her retired Marine father had contributed $4500 to the cause but had told her she had to raise the rest of her share on her own.  She claimed that her parents lived on a nearby street in our neighborhood.  I am a private pilot and experienced in many aspects of aviation, and certain parts of her story rang false.  We had two guests that night, and all our Scam Alarm bells were ringing.  We questioned her at length, and while she was glib and well-rehearsed, it was not hard to find soft points in her story.  My wife told her that if she could produce documentation of her story, we would help, but she could not show anything except a plastic-covered brochure about book packages.  She claimed to be selling book packages that would be given to the Riley Children's Hospital for distribution to the kids.  We were to pay $61 (!) and the students were to get $46.  She claimed to be far behind in getting the funding, and she pushed for a payment that night. From the descriptions in the Ripoff reports, this young woman appears to perpetrate similar scams all over the country.http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Angel-Germain/nationwide/Angel-Germain-College-student-trip-scam-Indianapolis-Indiana-Nationwide-1173697

Interlude: Weirdness

Hunter wrote up this encounter with an accomplished scamstress who came to his house while we were visiting.

The Eiteljorg Museum

Greg Kelsey, Walkara Hawk of the Mountains

Super Stocks, Funny Cars, Dragsters

Drag Races!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYJyNK5hjgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4L6cI8DQ4

The Army versus The Arab!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5VPornAFR4

Dejoria’s truck at the track

Antron Brown

John Force and his Daughters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfp8dPJc-YCacklefest at the Drags, 2014

My favorite graphic at the Races

Then, for a somewwhat different experience…

Indianapolis Art Museum

Jacob Cuyp“Portait of a Little Girl”

Childe Hassam, “Cliff Rock — Appledore”

Norman Rockwell, “The Love Song”

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, “Satan”

Bouguereau non-image

Ah… those Cheng Du Won Tons!

The Trip Back

I watched Total Recall and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9x0_dse9rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9rjC8MOgUJack the Giant Slayer

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