October 12, 2014. Eating in Evansville

CAMPGROUND:  Burdette City Park.  Electricity and water.  Decent showers and flush toilets.  Laundry. $18.  A few permanent campers.  Close to town.  3 stars out of 5.

LOCATION:  Evansville, Indiana in southwest corner of state

WEATHER:  Sprinkles all day. Highs in 60s

We drove about 250 miles southeast from Springfield, Illinois to Evansville, Indiana.  We stayed mostly on back roads so we saw lots of fields and small towns.

Our destination was Evansville because our book "1000 Places to Go Before You Die" recommended a BBQ restaurant here.  Since it is in the general direction we are going, we decided to stop here.  We pulled into an RV park that looked great on its website.  It turned out to be a real dump with mostly permanent residents with junk  all over  the place.  Overflowing dumpster and trailers jammed up together. So, we drove closer into town and found this city park. It is supposed to rain all day tomorrow, so it is good to be near a city.

After setting up, we set off  to one of the microbreweries in town.  On our way, we came across this truck/train crash.  Not sure what happened.  We had to turn around and find an alternate route.  

We drove past the main part of the city.  It is right on the Ohio River.  There were several barges filling up.  Lots of old, abandoned buildings.

We drove on to the microbrewery.  It is in a warehouse area.  We have found that this kind often has the best beer.  I had a rye IPA and George had a "Harry Potter" porter that had been aged in rum barrels.  Really packed a punch. 

From there, we went to the BBQ place featured in the book.  It is an Evansville icon.  Their BBQ style is different from other cities'.  We bought some brisket and pork ends.  Way too much food!

We brought the food back to the camper and ate here, along with a soup I made using up the last of the butternut squash.