Seeley Great Adventure 2022

Indianapolis was built on land first settled by the Miami Indian tribe. I happened to spend my last 3 years of high school attending North Central, at the time a relatively new school built on the north side to accommodate all the new residential developments being built there; three grades (10-12) with a total of 3,000 students.  Back then I-465 was being built around the city to avoid downtown traffic. Originally constructed with only 2 lanes in each direction, this Interstate loop now has 4-5 lanes in each direction. You may conclude that there has been incredible growth since those days, or that I am incredibly old - or both. We spent 2 nights and one full day here. Wendy decided that she did not care about going to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum to see all the race cars and memorabilia. I couldn’t understand why not, but we settled on visiting the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians And Western Art downtown instead. That turned out to be a great decision. See for your...

 From Perry we traveled up to Allatoona Lake north of Atlanta to visit with Bill & Laurie Arnold (Bill is Wendy’s brother), who live in Kennesaw GA about 15 miles south of the Lake. During the Civil War, in May and June of 1864, Kennesaw was the site of fierce fighting between Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston, who was trying to disrupt Sherman’s March on Atlanta that intended to destroy the city and eliminate existing transportation supply lines and infrastructure. The Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield now houses a museum and an elaborate wooded hiking trail system, replete with descriptive sign posts and cannons. The battles in this area lasted through much of June. Fought in dense forest and defended on the high ground by entrenched Confederate troops, many died on both sides from close up cannon fire, and from rocks that were rolled down the hills at the Union soldiers. In the end of course the Union forces prevailed. Another site...

 We left Venice yesterday about 11:30 am after days of planning, packing, servicing the RV and settling all the issues necessary to do with the house. Our first visit-style destination is just north of Atlanta at Lake Allatoona, where we’ll meet up once again this year with Wendy’s brother and sister in law (Bill & Laurie Arnold). The lake is huge and the campground is directly on it with a full service marina and beach - no sharks or Apex predators here. Because this leg is almost 600 miles in total, we’re taking three days to get there, which translates to 200 miles a day and 4 hours of pure driving time, plus lunch stops at rest areas and fueling stops roughly every other day. Our first night was spent in Alachua, FL, and tonight we’re in Perry, GA.  Since we have already spent several nights in Perry at the end of 2020, we’re not taking time to stop and explore again this time. But for those of you interested in history, I’m posting some pictures taken on our first vis...