A
long country mile....
Just
down the road in nearby Bloomington,
visit the 1,860 acre campus of Indiana University, rated one of the nation's
five most beautiful campuses in The Campus as a Work of Art. The university
is also home to the Indiana Hoosiers and five NCAA basketball championships.
Although Bobby Knight is no longer associated with the team and now coaches
for Texas Tech, Indiana Big Ten basketball is still worth checking out. Basketball
and football tickets available through the Indiana
University Athletic Ticket Office.
Located
just east
of Nashville, the town of Columbus
is renowned world-wide for its dedication to modern
architecture and ranked sixth amongst cities in the U.S. for architectural
quality and innovation by the American Institute of Architects. The Columbus
Architecture Tour provided by the Visitors Center was recently selected as
a 2003 Rand McNally Best of the Road award winner making Columbus a top road
stop in the 2003 Rand McNally Road Atlas. For the golf enthusiast, Columbus
also claims the boasting rights of being home to Otter Creek Golf Course which
has consistently ranked among the top 25 public courses in the U.S.