Saturday, September 1, 2007

Road Trip 2007 - Day 1

Well, its been a long delay since I said I was going to work on the Road Trip story. Oh well!

So, we left on July 28 at 7:46 AM. On the first day we just drove and drove all the way to Cranberry, Pennsylvania. We took the Indiana Tollroad, the Ohio Turnpike and then the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

I decided to try to take a photo of every 100 miles on the road. What a cute idea! However cute, it only lasted for about the first 600 miles.

Here is the photo of 100 miles out:



This was taken on the Indiana Tollroad near Elkhart, Indiana.

We decided to stop somewhere for breakfast, so we asked our Garmin for a suggestion. She suggested a place in Edon, Ohio called the Feed Bag or the Feed Mill or something like that. Anyway, we drove about 5 miles down a little road and there it was. We had a great breakfast in a cute little town.



After that, we just kept driving. Here is the 204 mile photo:



This one was taken somewhere in Ohio at about 1:37 PM.

And the following photo was taken at 357 miles on 80 East in Ohio near the Cuyahoga River:



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And one more: taken at mile 436 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, east of Pittsburgh -


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So, Day 1 is almost over. We have arrived in Cranberry, Pennsylvania in the late afternoon. We are staying at the Hyatt Place for the night. This is a really cool hotel - our room has a 42" plasma tv!


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For dinner we drove across the street to a restaurant called "Eat & Park". It was pretty similar to a Baker's Square. The thing is, though, wouldn't a more correct name be "Park & Eat"? I don't get it at all. I would think you need to park before you eat, rather than after. Someone didn't think that name out very well at all.
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Have a nice rest! Tomorrow we take off bright and early for Gettysburg.