Visit to Indianapolis, 20914, to visit friends and see races

1. Indianapolis 2014

2. Indianapolis 2014

3. On the Way

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y
I watched Doctor Strangelove on the flight
while Jeanie studied her watercolor magazines

5. Outstanding sausage patties!
Marriott Courtyard

6. Genuine Comfort Food!
Frisco Melt

7. Hall of Fame Museum

8. 1911 Winner

9. 2011 Winner

10. 100 Years

11. The Borg-Warner Trophy

12. Indy 500 finish line with bricks

13. Trader’s Point Creamery

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

16. The Eiteljorg Museum

17. Greg Kelsey, Walkara Hawk of the Mountains

19. Super Stocks, Funny Cars,
Dragsters

20. Drag Races!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYJyNK5hjgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4L6cI8DQ4

22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5VPornAFR4
The Army versus The Arab!

23. Dejoria’s truck at the track

24. Antron Brown

25. John Force and his Daughters

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

27. My favorite graphic at the Races

28. Then, for a somewwhat different
experience…
Indianapolis Art Museum

29. Jacob Cuyp
“Portait of a Little Girl”

30. Childe Hassam, “Cliff Rock — Appledore”

31. Norman Rockwell, “The Love Song”

32. Jean-Jacques Feuchère, “Satan”

33. Bouguereau non-image

34. Ah… those Cheng Du Won Tons!

35. The Trip Back

36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9x0_dse9rk
I watched Total Recall and…

37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9rjC8MOgU
Jack the Giant Slayer

38. Home!