Walkabout 2008: Day 10

Today's travels took me from Scranton where I had I lovely lunch at the local Chili's to Pittsburgh. As part of my trip, I took the Hershey Highway to the Chocolate Factory where the proprietor dismissed me with a "Good Day!!!"

Walkabout 2008: Day 9

Sorry for the gap in posting -- lots of driving.

Day 9 took me from Waterbury VT to a bed-n-breakfast just outside of Scranton PA. I've never been to a beet farm, so I thought I would give it a try.

These are the only pix I took:

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But I've had some serious laying around doing nothing time. So I've obviously had little time to post about my Pittsburgh grub crawl or my trip down the Hershey Highway.

But I had an odd dream that I wanted to share in the interim.

So I spent much of this weekend watching the Saw movies. Don't ask me why. Well, OK, you can ask me why, but I probably won't have a good answer. However, they were a lot better than I thought they would be.

And, as one would expect, my dreams were effected. Indeed I had what I would consider a nightmare. It felt so real I was relieved when I awoke this morning to find that it was only a dream.

In this dream/nightmare I had hired some people to replace the wood (OK laminate) floors in my living room with some cheap Berber carpet. I'm not sure why I did this, but I do know that I was very upset that I did it. I don't own a vacuum cleaner and with Alex shedding constantly I was going to have to buy one.

So you can imagine how relieved I was when I woke up and had wood. Floors that is.

Sorry. Went for the cheap joke.

Please feel free to analyze my dream. And try to work in Jung.

Walkabout 2008: Home

I got home early yesterday morning -- driving straight through from the 'burgh to Dallas. I hope to have the Pittsburgh grub crawl stuff up by the soonish.

Walkabout 2008: Day 8

More hanging out with the fam in Waterbury. The highlight of which was a 4-0 victory in final JV game of the season for the U32 High School soccer team. Yeah, I would have thought there would have been some Revolutionary War hero they could have named the school after.

Walkabout 2008: Day 7

Dang. One week has flown by.

Oh, and a tip to everyone. Don't ever have dinner at 5pm. It makes the rest of the night seem much later than it really is.

Walkabout 2008: Day 6

Today I traveled from Freeport Maine to Waterbury Vermont. The plan had been to have one of Maine's signature Lobster rolls. But the lobster roll shacks are closed for the season. Slackers.

Instead I had some of the worst French Toast I've ever had at Becky's Diner in downtown Portland.

Sorry there weren't more pictures. It rained most of the day, limiting optimal picture taking opportunities.

Walkabout 2008: Day 5

Day 5 took me from beautiful crime-free Hackensack New Jersey to slightly more beautiful Freeport Maine -- stopping briefly in New Haven for a burger. There was lots of driving and only a few opportunities to take pictures of the amazing fall foliage.

Enjoy.







I should have lots of pix tomorrow.

Eating New Haven: Louis' Lunch

I loves me some teevee shows about food. Whenever there's a show about the best hamburgers or donuts or steaks or sangwiches I'm tuned in. And one place that shows up time and time again is Louis' Lunch.

This is a place that has been around since the 1800s and claims to have invented the hamburger. Their cooking apparatus was built in the early 1900s. They are these unique vertical grills where the meat is placed vertically in a cage and cooked on both sides at the same time. The bread is then toasted on a toaster from the 1920s. Cheese, onion and tomato are then placed on the medium rare burger.

And here's what you get for $5:


To which I say "eh".

This burger is ok at best. Mushy from under cooking with only a modicum of flavor. Here's what I don't get. It took a good 10 minutes in a nearly empty restaurant to cook my burger. 10 minutes for medium rare????

If this burger were in Dallas, it would not come close to making my Top 10 Burgers List. And that includes Whataburger and my out of town favorite In-n-Out Burger.

Sorry. This is one over hyped burger.

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261-263 Crown Street New Haven, CT 06510

Walkabout 2008: Day 4

Sorry. Not much happened today. It was largely a hang out with the fam type day.

We did get served by a young Paulie Walnuts at Benzie's and were treated to the loud telephone conversation of a waitress at the Arena Diner. Her husband was either in the hospital or jail and her daughter kept hanging up on her.

I figured you would want to know.

Heading up to Portland Maine today mostly so I can say I've been to both Portlands and to check Maine and New Hampshire off my list of states I've never been to.

Oh, and if you're ever in the Bergen County area and someone asks if you want to get a quick bite at Jersey Boys. SAY "NO!!". It was terrible, America.