We swung into Evansville, Indiana, again today. We started out at Wolf Bar-B-Q where we pigged out at their wonderful buffet. It was only $9.95 a head without drinks and we found just about everything was very tasty although the chicken in sauce was dry. It’s a great bargain. We found Wolf’s in a book we have titled 1000 Places to See Before You Die. It was a good place to eat but I think the book author should get out more.
After turning away from the trough, we took another cruise into Evansvillle and we were dazzled by the abundance of fabulous old residences lining some streets. You can see that the tenants or owners of a few of these pretty buildings have lost out to the environment and their houses are falling apart. However, most of the buildings are well-maintained and beautiful. They are very large and maintenance must be expensive but the owners are putting up a valiant fight and their houses are testaments to their tenacity and dedication. The architecture is varied, creative and stunning.
We finally tore ourselves away from ogling the magnificent structures and headed along the Ohio River where we spotted and old LST (Landing Ship, Tank, in military parlance) Apparently, there were hundreds of these ships feeding the efforts of D-Day in Normandy in WWII and this ship is the last operating unit. They even take it out and drive it up and down the Ohio River during summer months, visiting shoreline communities but not landing any tanks.
We found a road across the Ohio into Kentucky and headed across to Henderson, home to John J. Audubon State Park. It seemed appropriate because we fancy ourselves birders, albeit woefully ignorant ones. Audubon Park is a gorgeous spot with some terrific birdwatching opportunities and, strangely, some gorgeous buildings built by the Works Project Administration back in the 1930s. They have a great observation room and I almost had to be blasted out of there because I was having a pretty good time speculating about what varieties of birds I was seeing. There were lots of them and they were very colorful. We thought this place was terrific.
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