The Brown County Experience

Welcome back, loyal readers! I was on hiatus from work yesterday to take some much needed time to explore the sights of southern Indiana...south to me, anyway. Destination: Brown County.

The first stop was a winery. It was a rather nice place where one could sample many different types of wine. The only downside, from my perspective, is that I did not see people in bare feet stomping on the grapes.

The next stop was the Brown County State Park. It seemed to be pretty large and the roads seem to wind through it forever. It is also possible that I got stuck in a spatial vortext, which would probably explain the wild turkeys that ran out in front of my car. From here, we went on a small trail which led to an overlook which could also reinforce the notion of the spatial vortex, because I think we wound up on Mt. Everest.

From there, we moved on to a nature center, which also had several trails to follow nearby. The nature center itself was a collection of snakes, turtles, and stuffed animals. I should also warn you: there was a little notepad for anyone to write down what they thought should be the state animal. I just looked and saw that according to www.stateanimals.com, Indiana appears to have no entry, but the exhibit said it was the bison. Anyway, someone had wrote down the new state animal should be Nina from Napoleon Dynamite.

Next, we took one of the trails that had been labeled "easy". This, of course, was established in the 1800's, where easy simply meant you didn't have to wrestle an Indiana bison barehanded in the middle of the trail. Now, it seems like an awfully long trail to use. It was pretty nice, regardless of ending up in M0ntana by the end (okay, that's an exaggeration).

There were many other times and experiences had while out there, but I'll have to write about those at a later time. Fare ye well, dedicated readers who donate money to this blog.