Boys of Summer book Entry #77.1

July 20, 2004 - Bob

Camping NW of Indianapolis, IN

Right now my mood is a bit dark. I don’t know exactly why. The day is sunny and warm. Perhaps this is just fatigue. It is good to have the Reds and that little P.R. mess behind us. It’s good as well to open my heart to what’s before us.

We’ll have a nice little event at Hubert’s (MN) -- that will be well. THEN -- my eyes are tired.

I’m a little bit sore, too, from my jogging the last couple of days. I need to jog and be sure to do my pushups as I know my staying in shape and keeping my blood flowing is part of what keeps me healthy. No time for sick out here.

Maybe we’ll get to a Waffle House today? It may be our last shot at this iconic place (there are over 1400 of these breakfast diners in 25 states according to the web site -- I swear we’ve seen at least a couple hundred). And as this is our last scheduled stop in “the south” we may just have to...

Dan:

We have been on the road for one month and have been to 14 parks. It seems to have gone very quickly. We pack up and are on the road by 9 a.m..

 

We have a light breakfast of Clif bars, then are off to Louisville. Louisville seems to have a few blocks of vibrant, new buildings and several miles of tired old ones. We go to Kinko’s for about 3 hours of work. Afterward we go to the Louisville Slugger museum. They do a big business in tours as well as making bats.

After the tour, we try to find a place to eat lunch and end up at a Hardees just outside of our next destination, Fort Knox. It has nothing to do with baseball. I was stationed there 37 years ago for my Armor Officer Basic Training. It was a 10-week course which, together with my ROTC training, was supposed to make me ready to be a Platoon leader. I don’t think I have ever felt so unprepared for any task in my life.