Trip Planner?

My good friend, Andy, is a graduate student at UT studying music theory (or something). But yesterday we were out buying a wireless router and he said "do you like to write?" Which obviously is yes...but it turns out that he needs someone to write grant proposals so he can have money to do things like travel to conferences and the like. Of course I said yes because I need money and I like to write AND half of my job involves planning these trips and creating a budget for them. Of course, not all grants involve him traveling BUT the first one does! So I am in the process of researching and planning a weekend getaway to Indianapolis, Indiana**. I actually have no urge to ever go there, but it's fun pretending I'm going on another trip anyways. Here's some interesting stuff that I've found so far:

1. Indianapolis doesn't have Supershuttle, which is a huge let down. BUT they do have an airport express bus (IndyGo) that is only $7 a trip, making it a lot cheaper than a Supershuttle and conveniently, it will drop Andy off at his hotel's doorstep.
2. Indianapolis is in the top 20 biggest cities in the nation (apparently it's also the 2nd biggest state capitol after Phoenix)
3. It's most exciting annual event: the Indy 500.
4. Larry Bird is from Indianapolis. I guess that could be cool...although he played for Boston.
5. The coolest bit is that Andy will be staying at one of the 7 hotels that connect via skyway to the huge convention center in town. The Westin, Hyatt, Marriott, Conrad Hilton, Omni, Embassy Suites and Canterbury Hotel all connect to the Indiana Convention Center. And apparently this building happens to also be Lucas Oil Stadium the home of the Indianapolis Colts.

Anyways, perhaps I'm destined to plan trips for people? Who knows. I'm off to do more research!



**This link is to one of my favorite websites of all time. It's city-data.com and it is spectacular. Literally any fact you could ever want to know about any US city can be found on that city's page. Check it out (there's a link at the bottom of the page)