well, didn't quite make it to the goodbye dinner last night because of the hurricane. BUT, needless to say, we pushed forward and this morning, Monday, I drove little silver to Somerville to pick up my 2 passengers. For the record, WE LEFT THERE IN THE MORNING. After some last minute pics and snacks with Auntie J and Greg, we hit the road.
3 hours in, we had a lovely lunch overlooking a "park+ride" lot off of I-84. It was quite lovely. Teddy, Cascadian Farm, Sprouted Wheat bread, and Hannaford all were lovely sponsers for this event.
Around 5 PM EST we arrived in scenic Scranton. The city was blossoming...a hoppin' Irish bar, a rather upbeat mall, and a movie theatre all took our breaths away. Due to high hotel prices there and us being overwhelmed with entertainment there, we decided to move on and find a much more boring place to stay overnight. Sorry Scranton, but us 3 cousins won't succumb to you even if Michael Scott and co. did.
We finally set up camp in Hazelton, PA. at America's Best Value Inn. Paul, our desk hop, was very generous in showing us his parking lot attraction: a Budget vehicle that was abandoned in his lot 3 weeks earlier from when a tree fell into it and smashed the windshield. Considering that is the most exciting thing to happen recently, you can imagine how much fun we've been having here.
Our first road meal: Stewart's Root Beer Drive in 3 miles from our hotel. This lovely burger joint was all orange: tables, counters, chairs, scary liquids that were on the tables when we got there...everything was orange. On the menu was a California Burger. Truly excited, I asked what was on it and as she was reading the ingredients to me, I chimed in and asked if there was any advocado. Smiling and laughing, she replied "I don't even know what that is."
...We non-food snobby New Englanders appreciated this cultural difference greatly. Having grown up in a food deprived family, we appreciated this sentiment greatly. After eating very average burgers and DELICIOUSLY greasy fries, we went back to Paul and the hotel, where this posting now comes to you.
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