Circle City

Q: Think you could still squeeze into that old Batman costume? A: I’m wearing it now.

"I called my tights my python pants, because they nearly strangled me to death," says Ward.

The geographic features revealed on the Indiana trails highlighted in this issue were surprising—from the prehistoric bog by the dunes to a sandstone canyon—making hiking and biking them all the more entertaining.

"I have a tree that drops what a friend says are persimmons, but the fruit doesn’t look like the grocery-store variety. What gives?"

In 30 years, Indy has shared as many good times—and bad—with our Colts as Baltimore ever did. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. Most of all, though, we’ve cheered.

“This is probably the mecca for people-watching in Indianapolis," says Scott Pallikan, an IFD Station 32 fireman. "You’re going to see pretty much everything the city has to offer.”

Fans of the bivalve can celebrate the return of the “r” months while perched at the raw bar inside Craig Baker’s new house of surf and turf.

Via @RbtKing: "If Scotland goes independent I'm going to have to find a kilt to wear to work tomorrow."

“I was like, ‘Hey, do NOT kick it to him," Colts defender Robert Mathis recalls. "'Kick it to him, and I’m going to fight you.’”

Says Gulley, "A decade ago, I created the little town of Harmony, Indiana, filled it with Quakers, and sent them a pastor named Sam Gardner to see what would happen. The series of novels had a good run, but I wanted to dabble in theology and pursued that genre of writing for a while. I missed Sam and the Harmony crowd, though, and decided to see what they had been up to in the intervening years."