Getting an early start by our standards (noon-ish), Teresa and I set off on our week-long vacation to the east. We're on what I like to call the "no plan plan", where we just kind of have a general route in mind, but don't have anything figured out. Teresa took first shift while I used the laptop and internet card to drum up some options. We were either going to stay in a small Lake Erie town east of Cleveland called Painesville, OH, or we were going to push on to Olean, NY, a small town in the foothills of western New York. I guess you could call these mountains. Not huge, by any means, but definitely bigger than anything we have in Michigan.
We decided to keep rolling towards Olean. Cleveland was cool. We kind of jumped off the freeway on the west side and rolled through what was obviously the nicer part of town. We rounded a bend, and bang, there was downtown. And then it was over, and we got stuck in traffic in the ugly part of town on the east side. I tried to stick to the coast of Lake Erie for some scenery, but there wasn't much to be had, so I jumped back on the I-90 and made some good time through the 50 miles or so of Pennsylvania while Teresa took a nap.
Towards the end of the 9 hour drive (with many stops), I was getting sleepy, so Teresa and I played 20 questions for about the last hour of the drive, which kept me going. I kicked her ass at it. Woot.
We got into Olean, a nice enough little town. Not too much happening, but that's kind of what we're shooting for, I think. Today, we move on towards Watkins Glen, where we'll hike the gorge, do some camping, make some S'mores. Hopefully the mosquitoes won't be too bad. It's just nice to be on the road, and enjoying ourselves together.
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