The Indiana Tenderloin Chronicles
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The Tenderloin and the Town: Portland, IN
Apparently, the preferred method of transportation in Portland, IN is by golf cart. I’ve seen golf cart friendly communities; usually it...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Knox, IN
“Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Fort Wayne, IN II - The Tenderloin Baseball Game
So you have The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, The Godfather 2, Terminator 2, even Rambo: First Blood Part 2. They all are sequels that...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Whiting, IN
Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go. Well… there wasn’t any woods, but there is one river, a few canals, a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Kendallville, IN
In the two and a half years of travel to Indiana towns and trying tenderloins, the city with the most feedback and fanfare has been -...
The Tenderloin and The Town: Columbia City, IN
The Tenderloin Takin’ the day off from work to get a tenderloin. There is no better a city to do that in than Columbia City. On a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Kentland, IN
With the start of Spring Break that featured a road trip to Southern Indiana with my son, I found myself in another easy position for a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Lawrenceburg, IN
We finally made it all the way down by the river! With our final stop on the road trip to the South-Side, Lawrenceburg is right by the...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Versailles, IN
Spring Break is almost here. Granted, we could head off to the beaches of Florida or the mountains of Colorado, but there is another...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Angola, IN
It’s January and it’s cold. Can a food / travel blog be done in the frozen tundra of Indiana winter? Maybe no Frisbee golfing, no...
The Tenderloin and the Town: West Lafayette, IN
It’s 1996 and you wake up on a Saturday morning by a train whistle even though you aren’t aware of any tracks nearby. Followed by a song...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Akron, IN
1,167 – This is the population of Akron, IN from the 2010 census. By far, it is the smallest town visited in this blog to date. Even...
The Tenderloin and The Town: Peru, IN
The Tenderloin Jack’s Eats & Brews sits on Canal Street on the east side of town. From all indications this was the place to get a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Fort Wayne, IN
All of my blogs, so far, have been towns and small cities. I have been going through my head on how I would tackle one the big cities in...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Greencastle, IN
In Putnam County the seat is called Greencastle. It’s a colorful and memorable city name and begs me to figure out how the name came to...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Anderson, IN
When we did the first blog post this year in Kokomo, there was a lot of pushback on the selection of the restaurant we tried. Although...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Albion, IN
Albion, Indiana is claims to the smallest county seat in the state. Its area of 1.91 square miles means it would only take the fastest...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Delphi, IN
The trek back to my college campus from North-Central Indiana leads me through 3 cities before hitting Lafayette. I wrote about...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Kokomo, IN
Up here in northern Indiana, Kokomo used to be known for two things; either being the subject of a late 80’s song by the Beach Boys...



























