October 14, 2026
Our destination is almost 13 hours from home, so we decided to make travel days into an exploration.
First stop “Falls of the Ohio State Park” in Indiana. Unfortunately, I took no pictures of our visit. The Falls themselves are on the Ohio River and due to an unusual drawing of the stateline are actually in Kentucky. The park is on land in Indiana. Go figure. The park is free, but it costs 2 dollars to park and another 16 for two people to go through the small visitor center museum. Not really free, I guess! Anyway, I wasn’t really overwhelmed with the veracity of the exhibits. So often they just mimic whatever philosphy the curators have adopted as FACT rather than describing what is actually displayed. Drives me nuts! I will never aquiesce to the common theme that white settlers were all evil and natives were all marvelous. Surely, both populations were full of regular humans doing regular human things – both nice and nasty.
Anyway, off my soapbox! On the path outside, the years of record-setting flood events were posted on the sidewalk. It is AMAZING how much water can flow through the area! The flood of 2025 was up there, but the highest was in the 1930’s (1937?) and reached over the first floor of the building! Here’s a photo from the internet, it’s hard to imagine that much water:
When we arrived, itwas raining when and all of the vultures that hang out at the park were grounded. About 2 dozen were gathered on the ground at the base of the Statue of Lewis and Clark (which celebrates the beginning point of the Lewis and Clark expedition). There was one vulture perched cockaded tricorn cap of Meriwether Lewis of the statue with its wings partially unfurled. It looked for all the world like he was holding a political rally and his supporters were gathered around. Pretty funny to see.
Our next stop was actually a mistake. I was navigating and Ted said something about ice cream in Borden, IN. I googled and found an ice cream shop at Huber’s. Off we went… Huber’s, it turns out, is a farm, market, dairy, winery, and cheese/ice cream factory. Basically the quintessential Fall tourist attraction. They do it up in spades! We had a good wander but didn’t feel up to a $6.00 ice cream cone.
We drove down to the town and found Norma Jean’s Ice Cream which was the one that Ted had heard about before we left. The shop was getting ready to close for the season so, we only had a few choice of flavors but Raspberry Truffle was pretty good.
After ice cream, a long drive to the hotel in Bloomington.
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