Having been to both places (Louisville twice) I have to say that for an out-of-towner Indy wasn't that great. After 45 minutes of driving around downtown Indy, we finally found a private garage about 6 blocks from the venue. At the Dallas convention I attended with the wifey, we stayed in a hotel and took a bus to the venue. We took in just about everything, including a dinner with Chuck Heston. Everything went smoothly. One thing about the NRA Annual Meetings is that they have grown by leaps and bounds in attendance, which I'm sure makes it harder and harder to find a large enough venue. I don't know about the restaurants. I'm not much on high brow places, but I know that if you didn't think that Louisville (I'm certainly no Louisville apologist) has top restaurants, you didn't look very hard. Some of them are: Jack Fry's, Wild Eggs, Brown Hotel, Mayan Cafe, Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Havana Rumba, Mussel and Burger Bar, J. Grahams Cafe and Doc Crows. If you want low brow fare, like me, Clarksville, IN has a lot of good places on Veteran's Parkway. All that being said, if they have another NRA Annual Meeting in Indy, I'll attend, Lord willing.Yes, Louisville logistics stink on ice. So looking forward to being in the best city for the Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, in 2019.
Atlanta is a massive convention city, so it should be good. Dallas will be a nightmare. Ugh.
Indy food rocks. We have much, much better restaurants than anyone else and more variety.
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