One last memento from Camp Atterbury

[Turbulent Turtle]

Came in the mail yesterday. An invoice from Riverlink.com. I drove to Camp Atterbury from Texas and I drove on I-40 to Nashville and hung a hard left on 65 through Kentucky then crossed over the Ohio at Louisville into Indiana. There was no way to pay the toll at that bridge as I remember. I figured they would bill me. A week later, I drove back across that bridge on my way home.

The invoice came yesterday, along with a picture of my vehicle and the license plate. I paid on-line.

So, anybody else have the same souvenir?

BTW, I did have a great time at Camp Atterbury. I shot pretty well and caught up with old friends and made new ones.

 

[Mudcat]

I have heard, but have no actual proof, of course, that if one has a trailer hitch rack and on said rack is a bunch of stuff that blocks the camera's view of the plate, that you dont get an invoice. Of course, its just a rumor and such..........

 

[Retired Grunt]

Came in the mail yesterday. An invoice from Riverlink.com. I drove to Camp Atterbury from Texas and I drove on I-40 to Nashville and hung a hard left on 65 through Kentucky then crossed over the Ohio at Louisville into Indiana. There was no way to pay the toll at that bridge as I remember. I figured they would bill me. A week later, I drove back across that bridge on my way home.

The invoice came yesterday, along with a picture of my vehicle and the license plate. I paid on-line.

So, anybody else have the same souvenir?

BTW, I did have a great time at Camp Atterbury. I shot pretty well and caught up with old friends and made new ones.

You could have exited Down town came up Brook St to main hung a left, go down to 2nd St and hung a Right crossed on the Free Bridge, I know it's a little late now.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

I appreciate the thoughts and recommendations. The invoice amount was not much, around $9 total. And let me assure you that after driving all the way from Houston, and dealing with the clusterfark due to the bridge closure over the Mississippi river, getting into Memphis, I was not going to deviate from my route just to avoid a $4 toll; at this stage of the trip, it was a "let's get there ASAP."

 

[davidjoe]

I got it too. A bill for $8.44.

They cut off the part of my license plate that says “Come and Take It”. Which I selected because of toll cameras.

It’s because we are from Texas.

 

[DiffEQ]

Glad it was so cheap and they didn't fine you too.
Back when you had to flip down your visor with EZ Pass, I received a hefty memento from Sam Houston Parkway.
Ugh, I have hated tolls since the New York Thruway and the Penna Pike in the '70's

 

[Walt Krafft]

I went home that way in 2019 and was expecting to get a bill, but never did.

 

[m1jeff]

I’ve got a pretty good farmer’s tan as a memento.
I always have a good time with the HP crowd.
I got to see some buddies win big this year, and met some folks I’ve only known on the forums.

I expect my bridge bills will be waiting for me whenever I finally get home. I crossed three times this trip.

 

[davidjoe]

An even older saying is “render unto Caesar”.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

From what I read at the Riverlink.com website; they had just started collecting tolls after abstaining for a year or more due to the Wuhan flu.

Also, I'm quite certain there would not be a hefty surcharge because they advertised pay by mail and there was nowhere to pay the toll. I just figured they would snap a picture of my plate, and send me the invoice at home. Being an older person, I promptly forgot about that. So when my wife opened the envelope (the vehicle is in both our names) she was quizzical about it but it jarred my (failing) memory.

It's a good system. I drove through uninterrupted and paid the tolls a month later. I'm not even sure there is a surcharge on there. Of course, if you elect not to pay it, that would probably change rapidly. But for me, it was not an issue of not paying or avoiding it; I view it as great customer service, with the added flavor of nasty events if you don't pay,

 

[Retired Grunt]

I was kind of joking I live right across the bridge and I have only been to Downtown Louisville once since Mar 2020. I avoided it during last years riots and Burn Loot and Maul conventions. Do some research, at one time it was said if a vehicle crossed from a state that didn't participate in the Toll System they had no jurisdiction to collect or go to that states DMV for collection...that may have changed.

Next year may be worse, the I-64 E & W Bridge (Sherman Minton) is going to be greatly reduced due to a massive construction repair project.

 

[Retired Grunt]

I know it's 11 months out, PM me next year and I'll get you around it.. there are also a few people from the area on this Forum.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

I know it's 11 months out, PM me next year and I'll get you around it.. there are also a few people from the area on this Forum.

I believe that next year, the Nationals will be in (gasp, wheeze) Phoenix, AZ in late October, which by that time means the weather will be a only about the temperature of Mercury, not the Sun itself.

So it may be 2023 or later before we come back to Atterbury and I will be older.
I had no problems pulling targets without an impact berm. I had a problem with the very precarious minuscule platforms that we stood on during the string, climbing up to them, and worse still, getting down from them. I was terrified of falling and it almost happened twice. Everything else was fine.

 

[Monte F]

Being from Nevada I may a little ignorant, what is a bridge toll you speak of? We have no such thing out here as we barely have any water out west.

 

[Retired Grunt]

Being from Nevada I may a little ignorant, what is a bridge toll you speak of? We have no such thing out here as we barely have any water out west.

Definition of a Bridge Toll: Something the Government uses that never ends to fund their boondoggles.

 

[DiffEQ]

An even older saying is “render unto Caesar”.

Yes, but didn't Caesar skip the toll when he crossed the Rubicon, muttering "Alea jacta est"?

 

[davidjoe]

Yes, but didn't Caesar skip the toll when he crossed the Rubicon, muttering "Alea iacta est"?

It’s nice to be born Caesar, I was just born David . Edit, consulted google. Loosely, there’s no going back. I better pay tolls, because for me there is.

Did anyone else notice multiple signs at the Camp’s entrance prohibiting “personal firearms”?

 

[DiffEQ]

Loosely, there’s no going back.

I prefer the literal, "rolling the dice." Either way, there was no going back.

Forum boss: Alea iacta est = the die has been cast (thrown) -- meaning there is no turning back

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

It’s nice to be born Caesar, I was just born David . Edit, consulted google. Loosely, there’s no going back. I better pay tolls, because for me there is.

Did anyone else notice multiple signs at the Camp’s entrance prohibiting “personal firearms”?

I did 5 years of Latin when I was in school. One of the fun things we did was read Caesar's campaigns in the original Latin (which is just like Klingon only slightly more musical.) Granted this was 50 years ago but I do remember a few things. Of course, I was translating from Latin to French and then reverse.

At any rate, the "alea jacta est" translates to "le sort en est jete." It means, "hold my beer..." (It was most probably wine.)

It was customary in those days, for returning Roman generals to leave their armies on the other side of the Rubicon river and make their way to Rome without their armies, lest the Roman senate believe this was a coup. Julius decided to cross the Rubicon with his armies and make his way to Rome with them, upsetting a lot of people.

 

[davidjoe]

I think the senate had removed him from power in absentia, this was upsetting, and so he took his army with him. I believe a guy wearing bison horns in the Senate chamber’s gallery, could be heard speaking in Latin, words of that same effect this year, but he might have been imbibing wine earlier that day, as well.