Tonight’s dinner stop… another favorite USRT eatery… Eat’n ParkUSRT reporting in from Morgantown, WV and the first 300 mile leg of the ride to Florida is complete. We had to negotiate through some very slick roads and icing through Erie PA, and it pretty much rained the whole way down here.

About the funniest part of this night was trying to get to our hotel. We booked it through Hotwire and got a pretty good deal on a 3 star, but the property is nowhere near I-79; in fact it was about a 12 mile detour which really sucked. Next, the GPS coordinates took us down some dirt road and by a boat launch in the middle of frikkin’ nowhere, and when we tried to do the U-turn and maneuver out of there we almost ended up in the lake. So, backtracking, we finally found the place, called “Lakeview Golf Resort” which looks like a really cool place to spend a summer weekend but is pretty much impractical for a night to crash enroute to Florida. Oops!

The best part of the check in was the receptionist at the counter, who comes from Jamestown NY and is a big Sabres fan. “Boy nice win tonight, 7-4 Sabres.” WHAT????? Unfortunately we couldn’t get the game on satellite radio (the NHL move from Sirius to XM is now complete, as we learned tonight but boy plenty of NBA hoops action on the Sirius dial). We kept up with the score on the mobile browser, and when the game hit 4-1 Tampa we stopped looking. So we got the good news from the most unlikely of sources, here in the middle of the mountains just south of Morgantown. That had to be one amazing comeback. Question to anyone who was there or watching… was the fan exodus out of the arena on, or did the comeback happen early enough to keep people in their seats?

Tomorrow comes the big drive… 900 miles or so until we reach Tampa. Sirius is broadcasting all the NCAA games and we have a printout of where to find them, so we’ll be enjoying March Madness via radio. Still no news on game tickets for the Sweet 16 in Charlotte… just checked eBay and the prices are actually going UP, and into the stratosphere no less. The best tonic for that whole affair is for the Tar Heels to get spanked in the first or second rounds - that would flood the streets of Charlotte with cheap tickets in a hurry. But we don’t expect that to happen.

Hopefully we’ll be able to check in tomorrow night from Tampa.

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