Just a little bit ago we went to see the Indy 500 in it’s 100th run. Two years ago, while watching the race on TV with my son, we became enthusiastic with the idea of going to Indianapolis for the 100th run, so started to plan for the trip.
We left the house for a road trip on May 25th and came back on June 2nd . It was a 3,000 miles drive round trip where we had the opportunity to see and learn many things about this country, it’s people and it’s history. We had the big advantage that our son is a Historian, so at one hand we visited many historical places, while at the other we got personal classes of history (my wife and me) when our son explained in detail what happened in different instances of the US history.
It was a wonderful trip filled with amazing discoveries, big disappointments, a couple of good scares and many other human emotions. For my son it was a chance to learn more details about history, while for me it was an opportunity to observe human behavior under the variants of location, weather, local history and so on.
There’s so much I can tell you about what happened in the trip, and especially from the human behavior analysis point of view (a big part in the reason of this blog), so I will divide it by occurrence while trying to go in chronological order, which is the best way for me to remember when having such a terrible memory!!
So for now let me tell you in general that we had this trip to Indy 500; we encountered crazy weather that became an extreme experience when driving under torrential rain at 75mph with heavy traffic; we discovered a train patio while driving lost between the trains, trying to find a way out; we had arguments with hotel’s attendants because of the different levels of distrust companies have depending on their geographical location; We had the opportunity to experience all around the adaptability of the human specie to the consequences of its own doings; and also see how disconnected people can be, also independent of their geographical location.
There’s so much human behavior analysis accumulated after a trip to an event that congregated around 350,000 people in one specific point at one specific time (or at least those were the numbers given by the organization). And we got about 20 hours of video and thousand of pictures to process, to have the memories in order, so it will take me a while to get that part done; but I can still use pictures from the “big bag” to show you here as posts progress.
Hope in the next couple of posts you can enjoy the psychological trip it meant this visit to the Indy 500 and the whole trip getting there and back to Denver. You can see in the map above our trip starting from Denver on I-70 to reach Indiana, and the road back on top of it, taking a big portion of I-80. The green dot is a very curious place we visit to get the carburetor of my little car running, while the purple dots were the main destinations, and the orange dots some of the incidental places we visited while driving through there.
See you next post!
Raul
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