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Eagle Creek is a fun little stream that runs past a State Park and then through Indianapolis. When you are kayaking, you barely know you are even in Indianapolis. We packed up the gear and headed out for a nice day of paddling. The pictures sort of speak for themselves, so we didn't bother captioning them.

This is a super fun event. On the second Friday of each month whoever feels like it meets in Downtown Indianapolis at about 7 pm. Then we all head out for a trip around Indy until about midnight. It is always an interesting experience. We try to make as many of these rides as we can.

We woke up and all met up at Cara's Dad's house and hung out for a while. Then we went and had some lunch. Cara's brother had a long trip home and they had to work. We headed north to Madison Wisconsin. Eric's mom's oldest brother lives in Madison and it is always on the top 5 list in bikable cities. The weather forecast looked good so we gave it a shot. We created 2 little videos that show our bike trips and some highlight pictures. I added them in different dimensions to see how they work on mobile and all of that. We are getting used to this program and how to use it so stay tuned. We ended up leaving after dinner and drove all the way back to Indiana and got home about 1:30 in the morning

Marion Indiana was a thriving manufacturing city back in the 70s. Since then the manufacturing has declined. There used to be about 60,000 people there, but now it is more like 20,000. Marion has a different vibe about it for sure. We met Eric's Cousin and his wife at a local bar. The bar is unique because they gamble their asses off legally, they smoke in there, and a dog owns the bar. On Wed and Fri they have drawings for big money and there is a huge crowd there. When somebody wins they buy a round for the house. So everybody gets a chip for a free drink. So usually on Wed it is 2 drawings so you end up with 2 free drinks!

Cara's Dad lives in Northern Illinois so we left early Sunday to go and spend a couple of days visiting with him. Cara's dad is 87, born in 1937.

It was a beautiful day and we decided to head out for a bike ride with Mark and Annette. We headed out to the Indianapolis Art Museum ( it has gone through a recent name change that cost millions of dollars and is now called Neufields, but nobody calls it that) LOL Press Start on the video below to check out where we rode

Indianapolis has turned some of it's old factories into maker spaces for artists and hobbyists. On the first Friday of every month they open these spaces up and it is a lot of fun to meet these people.

We met up with Mark and Annette in Indianapolis. We store our bikes in their garage a lot of times and they are always down for a ride if it is nice outside. It was a beautiful spring like day! The little video below will trace out our bike ride that day

After getting some work done in the morning and afternoon we decided to head north a little to check out the biking situation in downtown Fort Wayne. It was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed riding on the lovely Rivergreenway Trail along the St. Joseph, St. Mary, and Maumee Rivers. We planned to eat at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Union Street Market, but everything had just closed when we got there. We walked around to check it out though, and we ran into some old friends we hadn't seen in years. They now have a stall at the market (Plowshares), so we bought some good stuff from them.

We left at about 11 AM to bike downtown to meet Eric's college friend Steve for lunch. Unfortunately, we are getting back in the swing of things and forgot to take some critical pictures. We used to naturally get all of the pics we needed back when we actively did a travel log for 7 years. Rust developed during the 4 years we took off.....nevertheless we did get some pics to document the day. The day was sort of cloudy, but not rainy. We just messed around and enjoyed Indianapolis.

Every month on the second Friday, there is a really fun pop up ride in Indianapolis. It starts at 7pm ish and the ride does not have an organizing body. It is just show up at the right spot and ride. Every month is a different route. Usually it goes through the neighborhoods and lasts till midnight. This was a test ride to figure out the route.

It was Mark's Birthday. This was before we decided to start this blog, so there were not too many pictures taken. We had a great time. We rode to the Stutz Building which is a 1 city block car factory. The last Stutz car was built in the 70's.