We're Off - Barely - Day 1

We got out of Dodge a little late today. Too many tasks that needed to be readied down on the farm. We set off around 1:30 PM today heading into the cold weather that has overtaken most of the country east of the Mississippi. We were considering ditching Pittsburgh, and instead heading South to get to “shorts weather" pronto. But nothing above Florida was really warm enough to make it worth the trek; all cloudy and low sixties at best.

So we decided to keep the journey to Pittsburgh. Bland, boring, done it a dozen times PA TPK. Then again, you really know you left the cities, and have escaped to the country. While most of the turnpike is a progression of tree lined hills and sparse farms, the occasional hamlet overlook or panoramic mountainscape can draw a second glance.

And then it snowed. It even began to stick. We pulled over to a rinky-dink Days Inn just outside of Pittsburgh. With it being Easter, and Sunday, nothing’s open. Not even a liquor store. Perhaps we should have thought of that before now. We were famished and told that other than the fast food joints, the Park-n-Eat down the road, and the Bob Evans, across the bridge were the only things open. I hope the Park-n-Eat isn’t an omen of meals to come or next time I must remember to just get the salad bar.

No pictures to day (none needed).