I always love visiting independent coffee shops, and I'd heard Penny Lane was a great one. We headed to the Penny Lane Coffee Shop, which is just a couple blocks north of the CVB and the Evansville Museum, for a morning pick-me-up. Ben and I were there as part of an interrupted trip along the Indiana Baseball Heritage Trail, and we came back to the area to finish it. My friend Laura Libs of the Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) showed us around town, and was going to show us a few more great places to visit.

If you get back on I-169, you can follow that south and the road will head into downtown along the river, and roll right past the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the LST, and the Tropicana Evansville Casino.

The HGI is on the east side of Evansville, just a bit north of Angel Mounds. After a long day yesterday, we needed it. We had gotten in late, cooled off in the AC, and slept deeply. We woke up the next morning in the Hilton Garden Inn (because we had a room there, not because we snuck in or ended up there after wandering aimlessly), after a comfortable night in bed. After driving the 3.5 hours from Indianapolis just to get there. Most people would take four or five days to do all that, my son and I did it in less than 12 hours. My son and I had just spent a very busy day in Evansville in early August, eating some great German food at the Germania Volksfest visiting the LST (landing ship tank), a WWII boat (okay, okay, ship!) that played an important part in the war the Angel Mounds, just east of the city ate some of the best pizza I've found in that part of the state and, watched an Evansville Otters baseball game, following a 90 minute rain delay.

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