mikegtomkoAug 15, 20234 min readThe 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...
mikegtomkoAug 9, 20238 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Fort Wayne, IN II - The Tenderloin Baseball GameSo you have The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, The Godfather 2, Terminator 2, even Rambo: First Blood Part 2. They all are sequels that...
mikegtomkoJul 27, 202311 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Whiting, INOver 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...
mikegtomkoJun 27, 20235 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Kendallville, INIn the two and a half years of travel to Indiana towns and trying tenderloins, the city with the most feedback and fanfare has been -...
mikegtomkoMay 21, 20237 min readThe Tenderloin and The Town: Columbia City, INThe 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...
mikegtomkoApr 26, 20238 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Kentland, INWith 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...
mikegtomkoApr 8, 20235 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Lawrenceburg, INWe 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...
mikegtomkoApr 2, 20235 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Versailles, INSpring Break is almost here. Granted, we could head off to the beaches of Florida or the mountains of Colorado, but there is another...
mikegtomkoJan 22, 20236 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Angola, INIt’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...
mikegtomkoJan 1, 20239 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: West Lafayette, INIt’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...
mikegtomkoOct 16, 20226 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Akron, IN1,167 – 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...
mikegtomkoAug 28, 20225 min readThe Tenderloin and The Town: Peru, INThe 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...
mikegtomkoAug 23, 20227 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Fort Wayne, INAll 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...
mikegtomkoAug 2, 20225 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Greencastle, INIn 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...
mikegtomkoJul 19, 20226 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Anderson, INWhen 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...
mikegtomkoJul 10, 20227 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Albion, INAlbion, 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...
mikegtomkoJun 19, 20227 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Delphi, INThe trek back to my college campus from North-Central Indiana leads me through 3 cities before hitting Lafayette. I wrote about...
mikegtomkoApr 4, 20226 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Kokomo, INUp 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...
mikegtomkoDec 12, 20216 min readThe Tenderloin and The Town: Rockville, INWest of the State Capital lies another one of Indiana’s least traveled areas, Parke County. Nestled in-between Interstates 70 & 74 it is...
mikegtomkoNov 14, 20214 min readThe Tenderloin and the Town: Williamsport / Attica, INIt is important to have goals when writing a blog. Without them, writing could just form a hodge-podge of random places and locations....