On to Indianapolis -- March 28th -- Day 16

Thursday we had a leisurely morning and then loaded up to head west, stopping first in downtown Columbus for Max to pick up some additional ammunition against her cold.  This gave me the opportunity to take a picture of the Statehouse, the headquarters of Ohio's state government.  We proceeded west across the state -- as flat and windy as it had been on the south-to-north part of our trip -- and stopped for lunch in Richmond, Indiana, located just west of the Indiana-Ohio line.  Among other things Richmond claims to be the smallest city in the nation to have supported both an opera company and a symphony orchestra.  The former is no longer operating by the symphony is apparently still going strong.  Richmond is also the home of Earlham College, where our friends Lyn and David Kratz went to school.  Unfortunately we didn't realize that until we were on our way out of town; otherwise we would have stopped by to see if their considerable aura was still evident.  We arrived in Indianapolis and were relieved to discover little evidence of the 9" of snow that had fallen four days earlier.  I had not been here before, but Max had come here three years  ago with our friend Becky Bogard to watch Duke win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, and as soon as we were checked into our downtown hotel she was quite eager to show me the around.