Awake: 6:05am sleep ? overnight @ Winchester, Kentucky
We eat an early complimentary breakfast, check out of our comfortable room
& then attend the 8:30am Mass @ Saint Joseph Catholic church in town. It’s
a fairly large church on the outside but noticeably small on the inside.
We suspect hidden passageways leading to illegal Bingo Parlors!
We couldn’t help noticing that the town of Winchester has an amazing
number of huge mansions on large acreage in very pristine condition, which
further supports our Bingo gambling theory. The downtown area looked very
healthy, alive & well: an old town with many store fronts remaining in
business.
We leave Winchester @ 9:45am; mostly smooth roads on I-75, I-64, I-79 to
Pittsburgh, PA. I was shocked when entering Pennsylvania on I-79: we were
greeted with nearly 10 miles of rough to rougher road surface. How could
they do this? After that ugly stretch however, no more complaints.
We avoided our planned destination in Pittsburgh momentarily & visited the
near-by Barnes & Noble Book Store instead to make a few last min
purchases; then arrived @ our Microtel Hotel @ about 5:45pm. Today’s
travel: over 400 miles. 8+ hrs. Total miles from Aransas Pass, TX to
Pittsburgh= close to 1700 miles.
Now we are tired & hungry. Our Hotel clerk Jodi, tells us of a new (2 week
old) restaurant & bar just across the large parking lot & up the hill.
It’s dark so we decided to drive the distance; the transmission barely
shifted into a higher gear & we were @ the Bocktown Beer & Grill
restaurant & bar.
As we are walking into the Bocktown restaurant, Katrina calls from Denver:
she’s on her way to her rental house & will start packing tonight. We
discuss our pickup plans @ the Pittsburgh Airport for tomorrow & wish her
a bon voyage.
Jodi was right: this place was good! We asked for samples of dark beer &
they graciously gave us over 8 different selections to start with &
offered more. You see, they advertise over 400 different bottled beers
from nearly everywhere and 17 beers on tap. With our taste buds shot, we
settle with a draft called: Eastend Snow(sp) & share a pot roast sandwich
with salad.
Evening time: a little reading; a little computing & TV watching.
Lights out: 10:11pm
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