Saturday, August 4, 2012

DAY SEVEN: The long, dark night

We left Cleveland and headed south to Canton.  The plan was to tour the Football Hall of Fame the next day.  I tried for quite a while to find a hotel.  There was NOTHING available.  I finally asked one of the hotels what was going on.  Apparently Tiger Woods was having a golf tournament in Akron and it was inductee weekend at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton.  
That put a wrench in our plan.  It was almost 11pm at this point so we turned around to find a place to stay in Cleveland.  No such luck.  It looks like all the people who didn't want to spend $350 a night for a Super 8 were staying up in Cleveland.  So we trudged onward toward Toledo.  Surely there would be a place along the way.
The short version of a little longer story is we ended up driving an hour and a half to Toledo in a torrential lightning storm, exhausted and hungry.  I have never been more grateful for a McDonald's in Sandusky or a Hilton in Toledo.

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