Tom Bodette, where are you?

BLOG ON THE ROAD, Day 5
Tom Bodette, where are you?


We left Chambersburg about 9:30 heading for Pittsburgh, down and up and down and up and down Route 30.  Old-fashioned, non-interstate driving.  Over Sidling Hill and some other mountain whose name I can’t remember, but there are tunnels through them if you are on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, America’s First Super Highway.

Quick pit stop in Breezewood and then on the Turnpike.  Got a text from the Bro.  They were about 15 minutes ahead of us.  We stopped at the next service area, and toodled together into the Burgh.

It wouldn’t have taken so long to get to Pittsburgh if my traveling companion’s bladder had not been working over time.  Princess Pee-a-lot-a was on the road (she told me to put that in).

The Motel 6 may have left the light on for us, but the gal working the front desk was the dimmest of the bulbs.  We had 3 reservations.  Bonnie and I for Sunday night.  Kyle and Cathy, Sunday through Wednesday night.  Bonnie and I Monday through Wednesday night.  What to do?  What to do?  Struggle!  Think!  (Nah!)  Oh, hey, let’s cancel the Sunday night one, make it Sunday through Wednesday, and then we only have two reservations, one for each couple.  Oh my goodness!  Actor Tom Bodette, the former voice of Motel 6, must be rolling over in his grave.  If he is still alive, he just turned the light off!

The dinner cruise on the Gateway Clipper was quite enjoyable.  Good dinner.  Super table companions.  The food was served buffet style, and Bonnie and I were last back to the table.  We prayed, and after the “Amen,” one of the men remarked, “That’s neat!  All 6 of us prayed!”

Back at the room, we played 4 games of Setback.  Bros 2.  Hoes 2.

I’ll post pictures from the cruise in the next blog.

TTFN!