Day 19- Chicago- Bye

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The Ratings

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Best Of: ...........................Kevin/ Neal

Best Bar........ Shooters-Cleveland/ Jack Dempseys, NY

Best Bathroom......... Shooters- Cleveland / Ditka's, Chicago

Biggest Blunder....... Losing Cell Phone in Baltimore/ 2x pay to tour guide(Gettysburgh)

Favorite Attraction..... Gettysburg /Independence Hall, Philadelphia

Favorite City....... Baltimore/ Cleveland

Favorite Town........ York, PA /Woodstock, NY

Hardest place to buy booze......... Wisconsin / Pittsburgh

Most unpleasant Experience...... NY Yankee Fan / Canadian Custom Agent

Worst Bathroom....... Wisconsin Rest Stop / Harbor Tavern -Cleveland

Best of: (Kevin and Neal agree)

Best Buffalo Wings..... Anchor Bar-Buffalo

Best Coffee.......... Starbucks, Connecticut

Best Dinner....... Ditka's - Chicago

Best Drivers....... Neal and Kevin

Best Highways..... New York

Best Hotel......... Hampton Inn, North Olmstead, Ohio

Best Internet Connections...... Marriott's

Best Line on trip.. "Turn the page".... "How long do you think it takes these commuters to forget how beautiful the drive is?"

Best Lunch....... Jack Dempsey's- Chicago

Best nearest homosexual experience...... Kevin and Michael- Chicago

Best Pizza....... Connie's Chicago

Best place to get robbed...... NY Subway

Best prices on food at stadium..... Jacobs Field

Best public transportation to game...... Boston

Best Stadium Feature...... Riverboat smokestacks at Great America

Best Stadium for kids....... Jacobs Field

Best stadium View PNC- Pittsburgh

Best Unusual sandwich...... Panini's- Cleveland

Best Weather for a game....... Tie-Baltimore/NY

Bitchiest Waitress......... Waffle House- Middletown OH

Biggest act of courage........... Neal on top of Empire State Building

Biggest Home cooked steaks......... Marta's - Tewksbury, MA

Cheapest ballpark Souvenirs............ Jacobs Field- Cleveland

Cheapest Beer at Stadium......... Jacobs Field- Cleveland- $5.75

Cheapest Gas ............Toms River, NJ- $2.39

City with most visible homeless.......... Philadelphia

Cruelest Act........ Kevin making Neal go up to the top of the Empire State Building

Easiest place to get lost............ Pittsburgh

Easiest place to place a bet............ Joe in Tewksbury

Favorite Restaurant.............. Ditka's - Chicago

Friendliest People........... Cleveland

Greatest Disappointment.......... Fenway Park

Highest Parking............. Boston- $27.00

Hostess with the Mostess....... Jane's House in Basking Ridge NJ

Latest Breakfast(11:30am)........... Marta's - Tewksbury, MA

Least Favorite State........... Indiana

Most annoying fans (behind us) causing Kevin to almost have a OCD breakdown .....Jacobs Field

Most Comfortable Stadium Seats........ Tie- Great American/Jacobs Field

Most expensive Gas................. Fremont, IN $3.30

Most expensive Souvenir......... Fenway Park

Most expensive stadium Beer......... Yankee Stadium- NY- $8.00

Most overpasses in need of repair....... Chicago

Most Patriotic Stadium ........Jacobs Field "swearing in recruits from 4 branches of the military"

Most Pleasant Surprise....... State of New Jersey

Most souvenirs purchased...... Bob

Most steaks eaten (Total #)....... Bob

Nicest Waitress........ Natalie at Shooters

Rudest People........ Tie- Boston/NYC

Scariest ride in a cab...... Chicago after Cubs game (Thought we were going to die)

Worst Attraction...... Atlantic City

Worst Coffee....... Travel Lodge, Philadelphia

Worst Drivers....... Massachusetts

Worst part of drive...... Geo Washington Bridge to Wallingford CT

Worst Highways...... Ohio

Worst Internet Connections...... Super 8 Motels

Worst Place to catch a cab...... Cleveland

Worst stadium Seats........ Fenway Park

Worst Weather (Humid)...... Cincinnati

Day 18- Cleveland 4 Athletics 3

Cleveland. Not alot of pictures but a great town!

Pictures at the Harbor Tavern (Oldest in Cleveland) Reccommended by Natalie from the Shooters:

Great bar dog!

By the way, if any of you know of anyone looking for a 4 year old spayed, great with Kids & other dogs, housebroken, crate trained Emglish Mastiff (named Sheila) give me a call. I have her email address! Depserate. Dog may have to go to the pound.


On to Chicago!

Day 17- Bye- Niagra Falls

Niagra Falls at 10:30am

Neal at Anchor Tavern in Buffalo

Kevin- Lake Erie near Silver Beach, NY

Buffalo looks like a town in transition, lots of run down parts.

Niagra Falls is really jus a bunch of hotels from really nice to really bad.

Go to the Canadian side to see the Falls. US view is lousy

To Cleveland and beers with Steve Malay!

Day 16 - Bye (Cooperstown)

Drove from Newburgh NY to Cooperstown. Absolutely beaurtiful going through the Catskills.

The Baseball Hall of Fame was much better than the Football Hall of fame in Canton

Whole town is focused on baseball... Like 5 places to buy baseball bats. Pretty commercial

Checked prices on hotels. At least twice as high as surrounding towns

Very cool displays of players lockers with original hardware

On to Syracuse, then to Niagra Falls / Dunkirk NY

Day 15- Yankees 12 Baltimore 0

NYC and Game:

Survived a train ride from Madison NJ. ($30 for both of us)

Kevin scares Neal going up the Empire State Building

Great lunch at Jack Dempsey's

Hesitation on NYC subways/watch crossing over to Harlem

Kevin stirs up Yankee Fan by kicking over his beer that was on ground in way

Long ride to Madison and then to Northern NY- Get to Hotel at 1am

Day 14- Bye- Basking Ridge New Jersey

OK- Another day of 4 states. MA, CT, NY, and NJ

For Bob Ryan- Location: Tewksbury, MA **CASH ONLY**

Kevin picking up a a few bucks doing electical work in New Jersey

Neal and Jane

Emily

WHAT A DINNER JANE PUT ON! 2 BOTTLES OF WINE LATER!

Day 13- Red Sox 3 Yankees 4

Red Sox BLEW IT! Ortiz flew out with bases loaded. Yankees Win. Toured Boston with Marta and Joe. Lot's of walking. We all know how much Neal enjoys walking!

On to Jane's in New Jersey, tour NY Tuesday with the Yankees and Baltimore game Tuesday night.