Madonnas & Signs
Day 1
Madonna Day
Day 2
Sign Day
There's very little reporting from me today. That's partly because there wasn't a lot of travel and partly because the travel areas were more or less familiar to me and my photo shooting instincts were dulled. The target and clear highlight was the American Sign Museum. The great weather continued through the end of a fun cruise that was sometimes in my backyard.
April 25, 2009 (day 1)
We took in a "Walk of Fame" and two Madonnas along with a 170 year old
bridge. Plus, between eating at two roadhouses separated by a century, we toured
one long retired and retraced a stage coach route. Sunshine and summer were everywhere.
Prelude - March 19, 2009
Back in April of 2007, a few members of the
American Road Magazine Forum got together for
a little drive on
pieces of the Dixie and Jackson Highways in Kentucky. It was great fun and
we figured we might do something the next year, too. There was much talk
of an outing on the National Road between the Illinois and Indiana
Madonna of the Trail monuments but no acceptable date could be found so it
got "postponed". Talk surfaced again in the fall but finding an
open date was again a problem. Over the winter, following a visit to the
American Sign
Museum by a few members, the possibility of working it into a road
trip was discussed. We moved the National Road cruise one teacup...er, one
Madonna to the right and planned a drive from the monument in Richmond,
IN, to the one in Springfield, OH, then tacked on a drive to Cincy and the
museum. We'll be visiting the Madonnas on Saturday April 25 then, after an
overnight in Lebanon, OH, looking over that big collection of neon &
gold leaf on Sunday.