Author dorabenley

I guess motels and hotels in New York can’t be compared with motels in more normal locations. Dora knew that back in the early 1930’s when she used to take the train from Pittsburgh and rendezvous with Edward at the… Continue Reading →

The Waiter Showed Me To The Door: We stepped from the lobby of Courtyard by Marriott into the adjoining Ruby Tuesday’s Restaurant in Somerset, New Jersey only to be asked by a waiter, “Are you here to eat?” I said,… Continue Reading →

The Waitress Threw The Silverware At Us When we sat down to dinner at Bob Evans on Eisenhower Boulevard in Harrisburg, we could hardly keep the waitress and the manager away from our table. Every five minutes they’d pop up… Continue Reading →

A Touch Of The Bates Motel Just Off the PA Turnpike. It seemed an innocent enough place when we pulled into Breezewood yesterday and found our way to the Wiltshire Motel. Everything was on one level. They actually gave us… Continue Reading →

Miss Dora Benley and her parents made many voyages in Key to Lawrence Special Edition, the first novel of the Edward Ware Thriller series and the one concerning World War 1. The most famous voyage was the initial trip to… Continue Reading →

Garden Inn, New Stanton We Played Hide And Seek With The Manager All Afternoon: We like the disappearing breed of exterior corridor motels where you can drive up to the door of the room. So we remembered the HOJO’s in… Continue Reading →

We sat down to order dinner for four at the Red Lobster in Pleasant Hills outside Pittsburgh. Two of us made the mistake of ordering steak, one with shrimp and the other just plain steak and mashed potatoes. We spent… Continue Reading →

When we entered the Olive Garden Restaurant in Pleasant Hills outside Pittsburgh, the hostess told us that there would be a 5 or 10 minute wait. They didn’t have enough waitresses on duty. I mentioned to the hostess that I… Continue Reading →

You Might Just Starve At The Extended Stay: We headed down to the breakfast bar ready to pick up our tea, coffee, and orange juice only to find that there was no orange juice. There was no juice of any… Continue Reading →

Driving west towards Pittsburgh with the Allegheny Mountains surrounding us today, we went through the Allegheny Tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It’s an old tunnel. It’s narrow and dark. One wonders when it’s ever going to end. Ghouls seemed to… Continue Reading →