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13.6.08

SBC 2008 Week In Pictures

OK, so none of these really have anything to do with the SBC. Too bad.



My hotel: The Crowne Plaza at Union Station. It is still a working train station.


The hotel was full of these plaster "mannequins." To me, they looked like the mummies from the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Or ghosts.



Plaster sailor lighting a cigarette. This is looking out my room door. The train cars have been converted into suites.



The RCA Dome: the home of the Indianapolis Colts. It was right across the street from my hotel.



The Indianapolis Motor Speedway... Home of the Indy 500.



I spied a few pace Corvettes doing laps. I have no idea how fast they were going.



Rounding Turn 4 in the bus.



Pit Road and The Pagoda.



The Start/Finish Line. Originally, the entire 2.5 mile track was paved with 3.6 million bricks (hence its nickname, The Brickyard. The original paving bricks are under the asphalt, except for this 9-brick strip at the Start/Finish.


Coming into Turn 1.



Our driver kept it under 220 mph. In the time it took us to complete a lap, an Indy car would have lapped us seven times.



To enter/exit the Museum parking lot, you have to drive under the track and the grand stands.



The idiots from Fred Phelps' "church" were there to protest. I just don't get it. Thankfully, there were just two of them and even the secular press ignored them.



Huh?