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I am driving to Michigan over two days Friday and Saturday.

Ultimate destination is a little northwest of Ann Arbor.

Should I turn North at Memphis and take the Indiana route (includes Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne), or go to Nashville before turning north and go up through western Ohio (route includes Bowling Green KY, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Bowling Green OH & Ann Arbor).

According to Google Maps, the difference in mileage is only 30, so I'm not too concerned about that aspect. I just wonder which route might provide better scenery.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I am driving to Michigan over two days Friday and Saturday.

Ultimate destination is a little northwest of Ann Arbor.

Should I turn North at Memphis and take the Indiana route (includes Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne), or go to Nashville before turning north and go up through western Ohio (route includes Bowling Green KY, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Bowling Green OH & Ann Arbor).

According to Google Maps, the difference in mileage is only 30, so I'm not too concerned about that aspect. I just wonder which route might provide better scenery.

I'd prefer the Nashville route by far, but that may be just me.

Without wanting to offend anyone from the fair state of Indiana...my impression of Indiana is as follows:

Indiana = Corn

Okay, in fairness, I think you'll hit a Cheesecake Factory in Indianapolis...then back to corn.

I vote for the other route!!

sunflower wrote:Without wanting to offend anyone from the fair state of Indiana...my impression of Indiana is as follows:

Indiana = Corn

Okay, in fairness, I think you'll hit a Cheesecake Factory in Indianapolis...then back to corn.

I vote for the other route!!

Indianapolis has two Hooters too.

sunflower wrote:Without wanting to offend anyone from the fair state of Indiana...my impression of Indiana is as follows:

Indiana = Corn

Okay, in fairness, I think you'll hit a Cheesecake Factory in Indianapolis...then back to corn.

I vote for the other route!!

I miss Corn. I think the whole bored misses Corn.

Another option is to go north up to Tulsa, then northwest across Missouri.

major cities include: Springfield MO, St Louis, Springfield IL, Bloomington IL, Gary IN, Kalamazoo.

You know, I live here, love it here, and even I'm telling you to avoid Indiana. Once you get past about Vincennes, it's is some of the most boring and painful driving ever. Add to that the fact that I-70 (I'm assuming that's the one you're taking between Terrible Haute and Indy) carries more semi-trailer traffic than any interstate I"ve ever seen, and it's a hard route to recommend.

You might run into more construction coming up from Nashville, but if I were driving it, that's the way I'd come.

Now you could come up to St. Louis, then take I-64 across southern Indiana. Believe it or not, it's a much prettier drive -- you cut through the Hoosier National Forest, and the geography is rolling hills, rather than all cornfields. You could pick up your Ohio interstate once you got past Louisville.

And, if you feel like a rest stop somewhere around Evansville, you could give me a call. I-64 passes within about 15 miles of my house.

Bob Juch wrote:

sunflower wrote:Without wanting to offend anyone from the fair state of Indiana...my impression of Indiana is as follows:

Indiana = Corn

Okay, in fairness, I think you'll hit a Cheesecake Factory in Indianapolis...then back to corn.

I vote for the other route!!

Indianapolis has two Hooters too.

Hooters? Heck Texarkana has a Hooters now, therefore Hooters means nada.

Bob Juch wrote:

sunflower wrote:Without wanting to offend anyone from the fair state of Indiana...my impression of Indiana is as follows:

Indiana = Corn

Okay, in fairness, I think you'll hit a Cheesecake Factory in Indianapolis...then back to corn.

I vote for the other route!!

Indianapolis has two Hooters too.

I do like their food, sadly.

I think there is a PF Chang's too, yum! They're building one about 10 minutes from my house and I can't wait!!! Although I said the same thing about the Cheesecake Factory and since it opened last November, I've never gone there.

But I digress, even for PF Changs, I wouldn't drive through Indiana!

FWIW - if you take the Ft. Wayne route, you could pay homage at my high-school-years home, and the HS from which I graduated. It's not a national monument, yet.

OTOH - if you come through Tulsa I'll buy you coffee!

mrkelley23 wrote:You know, I live here, love it here, and even I'm telling you to avoid Indiana. Once you get past about Vincennes, it's is some of the most boring and painful driving ever. Add to that the fact that I-70 (I'm assuming that's the one you're taking between Terrible Haute and Indy) carries more semi-trailer traffic than any interstate I"ve ever seen, and it's a hard route to recommend.

You might run into more construction coming up from Nashville, but if I were driving it, that's the way I'd come.

Now you could come up to St. Louis, then take I-64 across southern Indiana. Believe it or not, it's a much prettier drive -- you cut through the Hoosier National Forest, and the geography is rolling hills, rather than all cornfields. You could pick up your Ohio interstate once you got past Louisville.

And, if you feel like a rest stop somewhere around Evansville, you could give me a call. I-64 passes within about 15 miles of my house.

I second mrkelley's recommendation. And Louisville has Hooters, a Cheesecake Factory and a PF Chang's, and I can throw in Kaelin's Restaurant, where the cheeseburger was invented, and the Louisville Slugger bat museum.

I try to eat at Kaelin's every time I go home....even if I have to skip White Castle.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I am driving to Michigan over two days Friday and Saturday.

I hope you took out a second mortgage to pay for the gas.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I am driving to Michigan over two days Friday and Saturday.

Ultimate destination is a little northwest of Ann Arbor.

Should I turn North at Memphis and take the Indiana route (includes Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne), or go to Nashville before turning north and go up through western Ohio (route includes Bowling Green KY, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Bowling Green OH & Ann Arbor).

According to Google Maps, the difference in mileage is only 30, so I'm not too concerned about that aspect. I just wonder which route might provide better scenery.

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