Madison River Front

Trip To Madison, IN
My wife and I took a motorcycle trip to Madison, IN in early June. This blog post is part of a series which presents each step of our journey. If you missed the beginning, the story starts here.

After dinner at the Broadway Hotel, my wife and I strolled down Broadway Avenue toward the river. We passed coach houses with walled gardens, and a historic swimming pool built in the 1930's. The riverfront was alive with people enjoying the pleasant summer evening.



Looking around it could easily have been a scene from the 1950's . . . Before cell phones, before video games, before all manner of digital entertainment turned our entire culture inward, indoors. Here was a baseball game being played. Here were picnics overlooking the river. Here were kids on bicycles.

We watched the sunset along the river, and snapped a few photos.  No photo could capture that hometown feeling.

Though the light was fading I snagged a couple of photos of the fountain outside the First Presbyterian Church.  The steeple of this church is easily discernible from our balcony view at Clifty Inn, a mile to the west and a hundred feet higher on the hill. 

We milked as much enjoyment out of that day as we could, until the light was gone. We mounted our bikes again, pointed them West out of downtown and toward Clifty Falls State Park. Mindful of the twisty roads, and the nocturnal beasts which night at any moment emerge onto the roadway in front of us, we tiptoed back to the Clifty Inn for the night.