The Baseball Trip, 2017

Day 10, August 5, 2017

Here's where we stayed last night:

It's a Days Inn. No kidding.

I don't think this was a Days Inn originally, if you know what I mean. It looks like it used to be a juvenile detention home. Our room was just down the hall from the registration desk, and all the halls had wood floors. You could hear every voice and footstep; I hope they found that one dude's reservation.

Okay, so there's really no action on the last day, just lots of driving. Normally Cleveland is a six hour drive, max. But we are stubborn. Back roads, all the way. It took ten and a half hours. But hey, I had to take the obligatory quaint County Courthouse picture in Indiana, so here it is:

Marshall County Courthouse, IN. What's up with that damn tree on the left?

Seriously, we did not see a major highway till we were somewhere near Beecher, Illinois. We also have a tradition of consuming a root beer float in Indiana on our last day if we are coming from the east. The only trouble was that the only ice cream emporiums we passed only sold soft-serve. No-go on that. But here's a picture of an original westward trail as we traveled under a canopy of trees:

Random observation from Randy: 17 lead to 20 . 20 Leads to Toledo. Do not take 20.

Random observation from Randy: If I owned a team in Helena, I'd name them the Handbaskets.

IAD - 0

KAPO - 2 on bikes

              1 playing basketball

So what do we have here?

2740 miles

6 U.S. States, 2 Canadian provinces

6 minor league ballparks.

1 MLB ballpark

3 racetracks.

1 casino.

1- giant phantasmagorum of  people, places and things. You know the object of this trip is not simply baseball. It's everything.

Final tally: Inflatable Air Dancers: 10

                   Kids actually Playing Outside: 18

Favorite sign: Sin knocks a hole in your bucket of joy.

Random observation from Randy: I'd like to see documentation on that.