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Here's one for Nate ...

The Creation Of Indiana

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days.

Eventually, Michael the Archangel found Him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired of God, "Where have You been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made!"

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, and I've put life on it I'm going to call it Earth, and it's going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.

God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. And over there I've placed a continent of white people, while over here is a continent of black people." God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a large land mass and said, "What's that one?"

"Ah," said God. "That's Indiana, the most glorious place on earth.
There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling hills. The people from Indiana are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God? You said there would be balance!"

God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, and Michigan."

I think Nates a transplant...

I think Nates a transplant...

But he is the only member I remember that admits to living in Indiana. He may be the only Indiana member we have on the board.

Don

I used to live there though I'm from (and back) Tennessee. From '68~'76 I lived ina small town called Washington. Some of the nicest people I've known. Also a great school system. Unfortunately two of the largest businesses closed up and I think half the town had left when I revisited in 1986. Also someone put up a f#$kin' WalMart on the edge of town and every store downtown closed up.

I've lived here all my life(Spencer/Gosport,In.). Nice people,nice motorcycle roads(southern parts),but the overall job market sucks!

coolatula. wrote:I've lived here all my life(Spencer/Gosport,In.). Nice people,nice motorcycle roads(southern parts),but the overall job market sucks!

I'll trade you the decent job market up here for some hills for a few months. Rolling hills around here means a .0008% incline.....on an offramp.

Good post, Don

I'm going to shoot a video of my 10 mile rout from my home to I-24 every morning

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fantastic motorcycle roads out here.

coolatula. wrote:I've lived here all my life(Spencer/Gosport,In.). Nice people,nice motorcycle roads(southern parts),but the overall job market sucks!

central indiana where I have been through and into southern IN was great for riding, hell it was to drive, not much like that here in central IL

Got to agree with God's take on Illinois for sure !!!

orionburn wrote:

coolatula. wrote:I've lived here all my life(Spencer/Gosport,In.). Nice people,nice motorcycle roads(southern parts),but the overall job market sucks!

I'll trade you the decent job market up here for some hills for a few months. Rolling hills around here means a .0008% incline.....on an offramp.

Good post, Don

For riding in Indiana you pretty much have to ride south of I-70 for the best riding if you want lots of hills and curves. The more southeast you go the more hills and tighter curves there are by and large.

Yeah,I spent 8 months working down in New Orleans and Baton Rouge,La., flat and uh.. flat! But they did have work there!

Didn't have my bike there and I wouldn't have enjoyed it much anyways. Seemed like the favorite past time for sport bikes there was to run your bike down the street in first gear bouncing off the rev limiter listening to your un-baffled pipe.

Hooligan wrote:fantastic motorcycle roads out here.

I hope to ride the northeast sometime as I've heard and seen shows about the roads there. I've never even visited the east coast.

I'm over here in Maryland. Not a big state but a lot of nice roads. Especially the more west you head.

cool, it's worth bringing a bike out here. i grew up in northern ohio in the burns of cleveland. decent roads can be found, but the stuff out here is sooo much better.

even our main roads are twisty, it's great! i ride with a friend in northern and eastern maryland quite a bit. it's a little flatter, but just as curvy.

straygator wrote:Got to agree with God's take on Illinois for sure !!!

Up here isn't completely bad, but finding good roods is far and few between. There are a few good spots going down to a friend's house, but they're short stretches of twisties. I takes what I can gets...