Road Trip Day 2: The Long Ride

Despite not eating dinner until well after 9:00 the night before and being fairly tired, we managed to get up, get ready, have the hotel breakfast, and be checked out of the hotel and on the road by just after 8:00 today.  The check out person was much nicer than the check in person.  Today was going to be the longest ride of our road trip.  We were driving from New York to Milwaukee.  We made a rest stop in the morning.   Then it was on to Ohio where we made a lunch stop, but the options weren't great so instead we used the bathroom and Mike bought a snack--because you know we didn't have a ton in the car or anything.  We stopped again a little later in Ohio and found better food options.  We each got a slice of pizza and a bread stick.   There was a gas station there too so we got gas.  We hit some serious traffic by Chicago--I can't imagine what that must be like at rush hour because it was a Saturday afternoon and it was nuts.  We got to our hotel between 6:00 and 7:00.  The lady who checked us in was probably the friendliest hotel person we met the whole trip.  We hung out in the room for a little while and decided to just eat dinner in the hotel since we were kind of tired from the long day of driving--or in my case riding since Mike did all the driving.  The food was pretty good.  I had fish and chips and we both tried a local beer.  I drank it, but I have no desire to drink it again, I'm not really a beer fan, but I figured I'd try it--I would be trying several more beers during this trip too.  Mike enjoyed his, I believe it was called Spotted Cow.  We took a peek at the outdoor bar after dinner--it was lovely, but we weren't in the mood for more drinks and then called it a night.
The next blog posts should be a little more interesting because we finally got to see stuff besides rest stops.  :-)  Here are a few pictures I took while in the car. Mike actually rocked out to "Bye Bye Bye" while driving.  I found that quite amusing.