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Jan 06, 2011 05:28AM
only on skates, and with a steady supply of hot chocolate. and my sisters and brother out-machine me.
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RA, yes there are some attractive ones, it's just that they all seem to have McDonald's as the primary "food" source. But they are much cleaner and nicer than the rest stops of the '70s and '80s, when my family was doing a lot of long car trips.
You see an interesting mix of people in rest stops, I find.
I hear you, Jammers...some have food courts now...here are the lists for some on the east end...Commodore Perry/Erie Islands (milepost 100.0)
Einstein Bros. Bagels
Sbarro
Cinnabon / Carvel
Burger King*
Travel Mart**
Starbucks**
Vermilion Valley/Middle Ridge (milepost 139.5)
Panera Bread
Popeye's
Burger King*
Hershey's Ice Cream
Great Steak & Potato (VV)
Manchu Wok (MR)
Starbucks**
Travel Mart
Travel Mart for Truckers
Towpath/Great Lakes (milepost 170.1)
Panera Bread
Pizza Hut Express / KFC
Burger King*
Starbucks
Travel Mart
Brady's Leap/Portage (milepost 197.0)
McDonald's*
Au Bon Pain
Sbarro
Starbucks
Travel Mart /Ohio Marketplace
Glacier Hills/Mahoning Valley (milepost 237.2)
I like the rest stops in Nebraska that give you weather information while you're peeing if you press a button before you go in the stall. Only a state with surprising and frequently changing weather (i.e. tornados) would think of such a thing.
Pi, is that a radio broadcast? I've never heard of such a thing, but it sounds kind of neat!RA, what are you doing on the Ohio turnpike--heading someplace in Ohio, or just passing through? And the ones you listed are all the ones I never stop at because they're too close to my home/the start of my trip!
Larry, very true, especially in the summertime!
Nebraska does have nice rest stop areas. Iowa's have gotten much better also.
My experience of rest stops in Illinois will always be trying desperately to get to one as my friend's dog announced that she needed to go NOW... and alas, we did not make it in time.
Larry wrote: "As you drive on I-80 through Nebraska, look for this:http://www.archway.org/"
I seen it many a times Larry. Have you ever stopped at it? We never have.
Barb wrote: "We have a similar walk-over in the middle of the highway up here too (in cottage country) ... so people on the other side of the divided highway can get to a burger joint."Oh this isn't a walkover. It's a museum that you have to pay to get into.
It's huge, and yes the museum is in the whole thing.
Larry wrote: "Barb wrote: "We have a similar walk-over in the middle of the highway up here too (in cottage country) ... so people on the other side of the divided highway can get to a burger joint."Oh this ..."
Fairly expensive too, if I remember correctly.
I've only just driven under it, to be honest.
Larry wrote: "I've only just driven under it, to be honest."Well then lie to us :-)
Okay -- I've been in it several times and it totally free.
Larry wrote: "Okay -- I've been in it several times and it totally free."See, was that so hard?
Jim wrote: "See, was that so hard?"Who knew?
* 360 feet of fiber optics is utilized in the entry movie* Twenty-four life size cast figures appear in the show
* Faces on the cast figures were cast from real life people
* Total of 89,000 blades of grass appear throughout the show
* An authentic 1914 Model T Ford car is featured at the beginning of the Lincoln Highway exhibit
* An authentic 1927 Oldsmobile car is showcased in the Lincoln Highway exhibit
* An authentic 1961 Cadillac convertible is showcased in the drive-in exhibit
WHO COUNTED THE BLADES OF GRASS? AND WHAT IF I PICK ONE?
Sarah Pi wrote: "* 360 feet of fiber optics is utilized in the entry movie"
Also, someone should tell them their subject doesn't agree with their verb.
I hate it when subject and verb don't get along, I always think that one will walk out and hook up with a noun.
Barb wrote: "Jim wrote: "I always think that one will walk out and hook up with a noun."An anounamous encounter?"
Ha!
Until one of them becomes persona noun grata
Sarah Pi wrote: "grated fromage?"Oooh, cheddar for me, please!
Just don't chunder. Leave that to the Australian.
Is Gail allowed to chunder, or does she have to leave that to the menfolk? Is it federal law, or just tradition?
Please don't leave it just to the menfolk.
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Sally was in my dream last night but there was no end of the world. We were meeting up in NC to go to the beach. She brought Leah. We had drinks and fun.
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RA, what are you doing on the Ohio turnpike--heading someplace in Ohio, or just passing through? And the ones you listed are all the ones I never stop at because they're too close to my home/the start of my trip! Jammers, I have driven back and forth across the Ohio turnpike probably, oh, thirty times in the fifteen years. My wife's family live between Erie PA and Jamestown, NY. Your turnpike cops suck balls, by the way.
The State Patrol? Yes, well, PA's staties suck too! They all seem to target out of state plates.
Jammies wrote: "The State Patrol? Yes, well, PA's staties suck too! They all seem to target out of state plates."No! Say it ain't so.
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I read this originally with "RA's pasties" and giggled.
Your writhe is broken.
Why does my feed say that Clark just joined Terminal Coffee?
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