Back on the Lincoln Highway in Indiana.
In September 2016 I found myself back in the heartland for a week of further exploration in Indiana and in Illinois (combined with several days on a side trip to Motown – more in other posts).
Very rural; lots of pretty farmland and little farming communities seemingly stuck in time. Case in point: Etna Green, in Kosciusko County (with a population of 586 at the 2010 census). A couple of these shots were taken in or near there. It seems the Amish have a large presence in northwestern Kosciusko County; I pulled up at George’s Grain Farm and Etna Elevator there and spotted an Amish buggy parked along the side. I managed to get that shot in the set below as it was leaving. Those buggies move at a pretty quick clip.
That one shot with the old cars was hard to resist but is atypical – that is not something I saw a lot of as, for example, I did on the West Virginia and western Pennsylvania portions of the Lincoln.
Close to the Illinois state line in Dyer the “Ideal Section” of the Lincoln Highway from the early 1920s is commemorated (which was a model section of the road). Also in Dyer is that sweet little Elzinga Farm Market (that’s the owner in one of the pix).
The couple of days I spent back in Indiana enjoying some fine late summer days and the quintessential midwestern countryside (and driving through lots and lots of cornfields) were delightful and for me what these road trips are all about.
