Last weekend I popped down to Indianapolis for a friend’s wedding.
Some random comments about Indy…
- Little solar panels on the taps in the airport washrooms
- Car rental facilities are on site, so no shuttle, yay! I haven’t seen that in a while
- Spanish as second language on all the signs in the airport
- On the far western edge of Eastern time zone, so it gets dark late now (sunset after 9pm), like in Seattle
- Indy 500 track looks smaller than I expected, at leaat from the air (it runs every Memorial Day weekend)
- Downtown is small, with only 3 tall buildings
- A sports stadium near downtown reminds me of a modern red brick barn
- Suburban sprawl is green
- I saw a few speed traps on the highways
Misc notes:
My rental car was a Chevy Cruze with only 38 miles on it. Not a bad car. (The lady there said she wasn’t going to give me an old car far away just because I booked on Priceline)
My hotel had an odd airport shuttle policy, in that it’s free if you booked directly, I or $20 if you booked through an OTA or priceline (I was curious to see if I should return my rental car previous evening or not)
On the right shoulder of one highway was a stove that had fallen off a truck, surprisingly close to the right now lane. Yikes!