Listing Through Life

It was a very warm August Saturday when we stopped at Mug n Bun Drive-In in Indianapolis. The eat-in-your-car spots were in the sun, so we decided to dine in the small building next door which is basically an indoor picnic area. The carhops walk over from the main restaurant with the food.

We had hamburgers and root beer. I had onion rings and my wife had French fries. My hamburger was average, but everything else was simply amazing. The root beer is the best I’ve ever had, no question. The onion rings were equally tasty, and they gave me so many of them I had to quit.

I had seen somewhere that Mentone, Indiana is home of the world’s largest egg. But after doing some research and seeing that the local chamber of commerce claims nothing greater for the egg than that it is “considered locally to be the “Largest Egg in the World”  and that there was absolutely nothing else to see in Mentone, I decided against making a special effort to visit.

But it just so happened that our trip home from Wabash went right through Mentone. When I saw the sign at the town border claiming to be the “Egg Basket of the Midwest,” I remembered the egg. Now it was just a two block side trip down the entire main street of the town.

Worth a trip down that street in the background? Perhaps. Worth a longer drive …

The Roann Covered Bridge across the Eel River was built in 1877 — and largely reconstructed in 1990 after an arson fire.

Modoc’s Market in Wabash, Indiana was center-stage for an interesting event in 1942. But here, I’ll let you read about it …

We stopped in for milk shakes and cookies.

Ezra Smith, the animal trainer who finally coaxed the elephant back onto her trailer, is on the left in the photo below.