July 24-26 Retirement Road Trip - Hershey PA - Harrisburg PA - Indianapolis

After leaving NY we started making our way East and stopped at Hershey PA.  Of course we enjoyed the Hershey Factory and became chocolate palateers.

We then drove as far as Harrisburg PA.  We looked up what sites we could see there and found they have a civil war museum.   Harrisburg was a training camp for the Union forces, and the confederate army was ready to take go to battle there, but Lee called the calvary back to Gettysburg.   We learned what the term "Bite the Bullet" came from.  When there were not available supplies for anethesia, they would give the soldier a lead bullet to bite on to distract from the pain.  I can't even imagine. 

We drove on to Zaneville, which didn't have much, but did have a couple of cool buildings and a Y shaped bridge.

After spending the night there we headed further east and spent the night in Inianapolis, Indiana.  Of course there we went to the Indianapolis speedway and museum.  

Here is the Indianapolis 500 1911 winner.

Here is the winner 100 years later, 2011.

Gary was feeling pretty cool until he was having a hard time getting out of the car.