So Dave and I went to Rochester, NY the weekend of August 9th for a wedding. We drove from Chicago, IL to Toledo, OH the first night, then through Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY before arriving in Rochester, NY. Lots of fun.
After the super wedding (They had a box of treats waiting for us at the hotel?! Very Martha Stewart. How did they know we love licorice and M&Ms and goldfish and Altoids and water...), we drove back to Buffalo, NY to hit a hot dog place that is in our "Eat Your Way Across the USA" book (see future blog on hot dog places). After that stop we headed to Niagra to cross into Canada. We drove across Canada to Port Huron, MI, then up to Flint, MI, on to Frankenmuth, MI (this one will have to be a future entry also!), up to Bay City, MI and eventually across the state to Ludington, MI to see Dave's parents.
Long explanation for the short point that we drove across almost the entire region that was struck by the blackout only 24 hours after we left it. Some friends of ours asked us to check under the car to see if we had snagged some electrical cord and not noticed. Maybe it was caused by setting all of the hotel room air conditioners on 'high cool' while brewing tiny pots of coffee and attempting to dry our hair with those hair dryers attached to the bathroom walls like phones...
We had a great week-long roadtrip in the tradition of our old roadtrips: the Lake Tour (drove around Lake Michigan), the Eastern Excursion (across Canada--from Detroit--to Niagra to Boston to Cooperstown...), and the Ohio River Tour (yep, the entire Ohio River from Pittsburgh, PA to Cairo, IL).
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