On the Trip

Hello everyone from the great place they call Pittsburgh. Well, actually just the outlying area. I'm out in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Very nice, very hilly. Too bad the weather has been all cold and wet. I have been working all week but my wife and kids have been touring the malls, checking out museums, driving all over.

Our drive out here lasted around 10 hours. That's not too bad with 4 kids in the car. We left our place around 11am Monday. We cleared Chicago in one hour running into only one backup as we got onto the skyway. The drive across Indiana and Ohio were uneventful. Travel Plazas are a godsend. Both states have them so people don't have to get off of the toll roads. The one we stopped at in Indiana was nice, the two in Ohio were split between nice and crappy. Evidently, they are in the middle of remodeling all of the Ohio Travel Plazas. The old ones suck; one restaurant, no store, crappy facilities. The new ones are excellent; big food courts, nice new facilities. They remind me of newer airports with the same kinds of options available.

We're staying at an Amerisuites. A nice hotel with not quite two rooms, but a close second to them. There is a wall between the two beds so Yvonne and I can be awake while all the kids are asleep. It's working out better than I expected.

Well, wrapping this one up. I'm coming back on Saturday. Hopefully the drive back will be as nice as the drive here.