In the “I can’t believe I’m actually reporting this” category…

In my Google news alert for “Booth Tarkington” came this amazing tweet a while back: “I’m at Booth Tarkington Rest Area Westbound (Mile Marker 146 Indiana East–West Toll Road, IN-120, Fremont).”  The Tweet referenced a foursquare meetup.

Okay.  So that’s weird enough.  But this is where my own weirdness set in.  From foursquare I went to satellite maps of I-80/I-90 near Fremont in Indiana.  The Rest Area is indicated by the cursor location, middle right.

Next is a closeup of what the rest area configuration looks like.  At this level, you can see a McDonald’s and two Mobil stations labeled.

So I zoomed in even closer, wondering if I could spy any details that might be a Booth Tarkington memorial.  See that green patch there, with a walkway out from the office building?  Might that be a memorial?

So then I went to Google street view for the answer:

Is this sick, or what?