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Old 08-28-2010, 09:13 AM
 
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So, who here is waiting anxiously for the Fall season? This summer has been brutal. I don't do well in heat, and it isn't because I am some overweight or obese person, my body just is normally warm and the summer heat isn't a friend of mine. I need that break in temperature to get wood split and re-stacked for winter heating, to work in my attic, to work in my crawl space, and do anything else that I have to be out of the home to do.

Fall also is festival season in the state. Anyone doing any certain festivals this year? I am looking at the following:

-Visit Brown County SP and Nashville
-Visit Metamora
-Visit Parke County during the covered bridge festival
-Visit Shades SP and/or Turkey Run SP

In addition, I want to venture out to some places I haven't been before such as:

-Hiking the Hoosier Nat'l Forest
-Hiking/visit Fort Harrison SP (Only live about seven miles away, but always thought it was a flat, boring, grasslands park...recently learned otherwise).
-Visit Wayne Co./Richmond area for the highest point in Indiana and see Thistlethwaite Falls.

Any other suggestions?
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Old 08-28-2010, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Turn Left at Greenland
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I second that! This summer has been AWFUL!!!
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Old 08-28-2010, 02:53 PM
 
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I can't wait until Sept. 4th arrives with college football.
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Old 08-29-2010, 03:11 AM
 
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Fall wouldn't be so bad if it lasted 6 months. <G> It will only last a short while with lots of damp rainy weather.
We usually visit living history or re-enactments in Rochester, Lafayette, Huntington, Hartford City, Marion & Kokomo.
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Old 08-29-2010, 05:59 AM
 
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I will gladly welcome fall cooler temps and lots of rain .I am tired of summer .
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Old 08-29-2010, 06:21 AM
 
Location: Indiana
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I will welcome fall if they would make the Covered Bridge Festival a fly-in only event or at least shorten it to one three day weekend. Two weeks of looky-loos and traffic that resembles 465 at 5:30 only condensed to two lanes is an ever-loving nightmare.

AFA the weather? Love it. Had to wear a jacket to market yesterday but shed it by 9:30 and was considering putting shorts on by 1
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Old 08-29-2010, 09:38 AM
 
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Sounds like some fun plans. Hiking the Hoosier Natl Forest is fantastic. I'm planning on hitting up the Adventure Hiking Trail near Corydon in October.

I would not recommend the trip you mentioned to the highest point in Indiana though. I'm in Richmond right now. It's pretty flat and open farmland and the "highest point" isn't all that impressive since basically all the land in this area is at the same elevation.

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So, who here is waiting anxiously for the Fall season? This summer has been brutal. I don't do well in heat, and it isn't because I am some overweight or obese person, my body just is normally warm and the summer heat isn't a friend of mine. I need that break in temperature to get wood split and re-stacked for winter heating, to work in my attic, to work in my crawl space, and do anything else that I have to be out of the home to do.

Fall also is festival season in the state. Anyone doing any certain festivals this year? I am looking at the following:

-Visit Brown County SP and Nashville
-Visit Metamora
-Visit Parke County during the covered bridge festival
-Visit Shades SP and/or Turkey Run SP

In addition, I want to venture out to some places I haven't been before such as:

-Hiking the Hoosier Nat'l Forest
-Hiking/visit Fort Harrison SP (Only live about seven miles away, but always thought it was a flat, boring, grasslands park...recently learned otherwise).
-Visit Wayne Co./Richmond area for the highest point in Indiana and see Thistlethwaite Falls.

Any other suggestions?
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Old 08-29-2010, 12:59 PM
 
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Thanks for the tips. Visiting the highest point in Indiana would actually be part of a trip seeing a few things out east. Sucks that the view isn't that grand or anything. I just checked Accuweather, it appears that we might not get a break from the mid-80s to 90s till mid-Sept. Only about two weeks or so...finally. It was so hot this summer we skipped the State Fair, which sucks because I really like going.
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Old 08-29-2010, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Lowell, MA
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I also can't wait until this heat is finally gone!!! I am so looking to the fall season, hopefully we'll have one.

The above pics are of my fav place to go in the fall the Kangamangus Highway in NH. As you can see the it's an awesome place to be when the leaves are changing colors and the mts. are as high and low as you can see. It's such a place of pure beauty!

I will be also be visiting the following places:

- Apple Picking at Parlee Farms, Tyngsboro, MA
The early mac's are so tart and yummy
- Pumpkin Picking at Parlee Farms, Tyngsboro, MA
- Hay Rides
- Fall Festivals

HAPPY fALL EVERYONE!!!
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Old 09-06-2010, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Corydon, IN
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The last few evenings have been nice, I'm ready for fall.
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