Day 2 - August 5

Got up early (for us!) at 8:30 a.m. and ate the free continental breakfast. Very marginal. It was a beautiful day for driving, and we didn’t stop until we got to Greenfield, Indiana, just west of Indy. After gassing up, we saw an O’Charlie’s Restaurant, and went in and had a very nice lunch. Note: A drunk woman in a nearby booth ranted and raved loudly into her cell phone, no expletives deleted, especially the F word – over and over again! The manager stopped at our table and apologized several different times. Carol said that, in her professional opinion, the woman was very upset! But the lunch was tasty - I had a club sandwich and Carol had a broccoli casserole. We both had loaded baked potatoes, with melted cheese. Really good!

We headed for Cleveland, where we planned to spend the night, but I discovered that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame there stayed open until 9:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Since that was the reason for planning a stop overnight there, we realized that if we could get there with enough time to see the exhibits we wanted to see, we could then drive further east before stopping for the night.

Luck was with us, and we got into Cleveland and to the R&R Hall of Fame by 7:15 p.m. Carol found a great free place to park and we hurried inside. We had visited there once before, and had already seen some of the permanent exhibits, but we saw some great special exhibits – Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. What a great place! I recommend it to anyone who cares about rock and roll! We bought some souvenirs in the gift shop, which stayed open until 9:30 p.m., and we took a few more pictures in the lobby before leaving. (Sorry to say no photography was allowed anywhere else in the building.)

By 9:45 p.m. we were headed east on I-90 and got all the way to Erie, PA by midnight. Motels were really full by that time, and the only place with a room was a Microtel. A tiny room with one queen bed, a noisy fluorescent light, and a dripping, groaning toilet. The shower didn’t drain well either, but, overall it was nice and clean and was much better than the Howard Johnson’s of the night before. I stayed up late using the wireless Internet, and we slept in a little later than yesterday – until 9:30 a.m.