A Place of Many Roads

This weekend is the Indy 500 Race, #43 on my 200 Indiana Bicentennial Year list, in Indianapolis.

It's fitting that there is a car race of such prominence in the state dubbed "The Crossroads of America"--this nickname being #44 on my list.

There are many interstates that converge in Indiana.  I have been on a number of them while headed toward and coming home from locations in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-South regions.

#45: Interstate 80/90, the Indiana Toll Road, which cuts across the northern part of the state, making way toward the Ohio Turnpike
#46: Interstate 65: it's a major north-south artery through Indiana.  It may be flat along the drive, but those fields are the heart of America's agricultural might.
#47: Plus, the decorative bridge at the exit for Columbus really stands out as such.
#48: Interstate 69
#49: Interstate 70
#50: Interstate 64
#51: Interstate 74
#52: Interstate 465, which runs in a loop around Indianapolis, which is #53 on list.

There's also US Route 41 (#53), running down the western edge of the state.  I traveled it five years ago this month while headed on a storm chasing trip, and it was a great drive through the state.  We passed through cities like Terre Haute (#54), Vincennes (#55), and Evansville (#56).

Vincennes has the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (#57), commemorating an American victory over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Additionally, the famed Lincoln Highway runs the northern part of Indiana (#58).

Indeed, Indiana is a happening place with its network of the convergence of all these roads, and so is a big part of keeping America moving.