Columbus to Nashville While Never Leaving Indiana

Not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to spend three evenings in a row after teaching my Hadoop & Big Data class to an Indiana-based customer of mine.  I guess I'm just a nut and I really like to see Covered Bridges!!

New Brownsville Covered Bridge

Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana (not Ohio!), is the home of this nicely maintained covered bridge that is opened to traffic.  It offered me a chance to see a bridge in the first 15 minutes of my first outing.

As you can see above, the park ain't too shabby either!  An added benefit on being in such a public place is that the graffiti level (which plagues so many old covered bridges) is well managed.

As I said, you can drive through this one – vroom, vroom!!

Bean Blossom Covered Bridge

I then headed west and soon found myself in the town of Nashville (again Indiana, not Tennessee!) which was beaming with character. 

In addition to the man-made elements, this part of Indiana is really pretty.  Rolling hills with winding roads surrounding by tall trees.  After tearing down a super skinny little forest road for about a mile off the main road north of town I arrived at this sweet little bridge built back in 1880.

It has great bones!

It was a pleasure to drive through it, too.

Ramp Creek Covered Bridge

I then headed back out of Nashville towards Columbus (again, both in Indiana, not Tennessee and Ohio!!) and got to see this very interesting double-wide at the entrance to Brown County State Park.

It has got some solid bones, too!!

Guess what?  Yep, you have to watch another "exciting" movie of me driving through another covered bridge!!