Ryan McFarland

From September 25th to the 29th we were in Indianapolis for the National Recreation and Park Association conference.  As the president of the Alaska association i serve on the Council of Statewide Affiliates and the Pacific Northwest Regional Council and attend meetings for both representing the state.

We left Indianapolis around 11 and it wasn’t too long before our stomachs were complaining of not having any breakfast.  We stopped at a Taco Bell along the highway and it was the slowest delivery of our order i have ever had at a fast food joint.  The meal was sub standard even for a highway stop Taco Bell.

The trip was uneventful except for seeing significant smoke from a fire near the road and our little stop in High Hill (see that post).  We crossed into the Central time zone.  I have continued to shoot the webcam videos but they have been too long to upload to youtube.  I’ll figure something out because i really want to assemble them into one video eventually.

We met up with Cece and Joe (”What are you doing here?”) and had dinner at Chili’s (Thanks mom!).  We then went to Flat Branch brewery and sampled some fine handcrafted beer.  Their Irish Red Ale was particularly good and was even dispensed with a hand pump (without C02).