--I was too tired the first night after driving to go
traipsing around town, so I was the person I hated, eating in the Holiday Inn
restaurant. On the plus side, I got to
eat walleye pike, which is a Midwestern lake fish that’s incredibly difficult
to find on the East Coast. Yum!
--The most beautiful sight outside of your Holiday Inn is a
branch of Tim Horton’s doughnuts. Tim
Horton was a Canadian hockey player, and he knows his doughnuts. Double chocolate was even better than as it
sounds, and sour cream glazed was slightly less good than it sounds. And fabulous iced coffee…when she asked if I
wanted the standard “one cream, one sugar,” I was worried there wouldn’t be
enough cream, so I got two…which resulted in a delicious blend that tasted a
lot like coffee ice cream. No wonder I
loved it!
--A quick stop in South Bend, IN, for an Italian beef
sandwich at King of Gyro. Not the best
beef I’ve had, but the best beef I’ve had while driving halfway across the
country. I was planning to get a Chicago
hot dog, but at the last minute grew worried because they weren’t serving
Vienna beef dogs.
And in non-food-related news:
Spotted while driving on the interstate—one groundhog, one
deer, one funeral procession, two giant wind turbines (6 stories tall!), lots
of thirsty-looking corn, a zillion Krazy Kaplan’s fireworks billboards outside of
Chicago.
Surprisingly, after leaving the Beltway and 270, the craziest
drivers were in Iowa, on I-80. I can’t
believe I’m saying this, but maybe a couple of state troopers might keep things
in check? But thank you for letting me
drive for free, Iowa.
Yes, Ohio’s reputation as a state where one shouldn’t speed seems
intact…very well-patrolled.
PA Turnpike, you’ve got your nerve charging me $12.50 to
drive on that crappy road!