We woke up in Cleveland this morning, and we were actually surprised by how nice of a city it was. Especially when compared to NYC and Philadelphia, Cleveland seemed to be really clean and easy to navigate without mass transit and/or taxis. After spending about 30 minutes in a Burger King parking lot to finally upload a couple of days worth of blog posts, we headed downtown to see the much-fabled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately for us, the price of admission was about $17 more than we were willing to pay. So after sticking around for a few minutes to see famous peoples' guitars and play Guitar Hero for free in the lobby, we left. On the short walk over to Browns Stadium, we walked past a harbor area where we saw a huge and out-of-place Cleveland Steamer. The stadium was great, and we really liked all the plaques it had of people who have taken the Browns to the Superbowl.
We spent the next few hours on a particularly mindless stretch of interstate through northern Ohio and Indiana. We stopped for dinner in South Bend, Indiana and ate at a particularly sketchy local barbeque joint called Frankie's. While we were in town we figured we might as well go check out Notre Dame's campus, if for no other reason than to have an excuse to make a bunch of Lou Holtz jokes. We got some snapshots of Touchdown Jesus and came away with a sense of sense of awe and wonderment that can only be experienced by witnessing first hand the stomping grounds of the most consistently overrated college football team of all time.
From South Bend it was only about 100 miles to Chicago. On the way, we were able to snag our best priceline deal yet: a room at the 4th nicest hotel in Chicago for only $59. So after checking in and spreading our crap out evenly across the hardwood floors and nice furniture, we left to meet up with some friends of mine who live in Chicago. We first picked up Mike and headed to Wrigleyville to check out some bars. Much to our surprise, the first bar we went to was an Alabama-themed one called The Houndstooth Saloon, and we thoroughly enjoyed being surrounded by Tide memoribilia despite being so far from Tuscaloosa. We were supposed to also meet up with my buddy Jon, but unfortunately the Chicago mass transit system failed to make that happen.
Gasoline Purchased Today: 31 gallons
Sleeping Accomodations: Hyatt Regency O'Hare
Tomorrow's Destination: St. Louis
Potential Stops en Route: Downtown Chicago, authentic pizza place, rest stops
Potential Problems: Boredom on yet another endlessly long drive
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