{"id":595,"date":"2008-06-18T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-06-13T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T17:32:44","slug":"50_states_indiana_42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/18\/50_states_indiana_42.html","title":{"rendered":"50 States: Indiana (42)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/2436934906\/\" title=\"50 States: Indiana by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2077\/2436934906_1c0d938206.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"50 States: Indiana\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>I&#8217;ve criss-crossed through Indiana &#8211; mostly to and from Chicago along I-90 &#8211; a few times, but the first time we actually stopped was the same afternoon <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/17\/50_states_kentucky_41.html\">we visited Maker&#8217;s Mark<\/A>.  On our way to St Louis, we passed through <a title=\"Santa Claus, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Claus,_Indiana\">Santa Claus, Indiana<\/a> (apparently known for thirty years as &#8220;Santaclause&#8221; &#8211; thanks, Wikipedia), where we took the photo above.<\/p>\n<p>On our first road trip on our way out to Los Angeles in 2006, we started out in Rochester, dined in <a title=\"  50 States: Ohio (34)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/10\/50_states_ohio_34.html\">Ohio<\/a>, and had <a title=\"Road Trip II, Days One - Three\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/road_trip_ii_days_one_-_three.html\">an interesting afternoon<\/A> driving and strolling through the unexpected <a title=\"Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (U.S. National Park Service)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/indu\/\">Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore<\/A>.  After walking the beach and checking out the restoration work on the <a title=\"House of Tomorrow at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/archive\/indu\/history\/House of Tomorrow.htm\">House of Tomorrow<\/A>, we continued on through the state and spent the first night of the trip in Rushville, about 40 miles outside Indianapolis and home to a Holiday Inn Express, if I remember correctly; we were working our way across the country through the chain, and by the middle of the trip had accumulated enough points for a free night&#8217;s stay.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve criss-crossed through Indiana &#8211; mostly to and from Chicago along I-90 &#8211; a few times, but the first time we actually stopped was the same afternoon we visited Maker&#8217;s Mark. On our way to St Louis, we passed through Santa Claus, Indiana (apparently known for thirty years as &#8220;Santaclause&#8221; &#8211; thanks, Wikipedia), where we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-travel","tag-50states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}