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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 →

Do you really want to wait for the front desk to “inspect” your room before you check out? If you are like us, you probably don’t really check out. You pay as you check in, and then the next day… Continue Reading →

Virginia Museum of the Civil War at the Newmarket Battlefield State Historic Park is nostalgic. It reminds you of a time period in the nineteenth century, the Victorian era, when terms like “Hall of Valor”, “hero”, and “field of honor”… Continue Reading →

We ordered roast beef and meatloaf platters with plenty of corn bread. I thought there would be plenty of time to slip into the shop to buy a gift. There was only one lady in front of me. But she… Continue Reading →

Perkins Family Restaurant, Dandridge, TN We sat down to order dinner at the Perkins Family Restaurant in Dandridge, Tennessee after a long day traversing the Smokies and I-40. We thought that the chicken pot pie looked good, and we ordered…. Continue Reading →

Tennessee has everything from crayfish to hillbillies selling moonshine on Thunder Row to nuclear reactors and a lot inbetween. Edward and Dora could have spent time at Oak Ridge chasing Soviet spies, but they instead spent their time at Los… Continue Reading →