Yesterday we took Jerry and Gretchen out to breakfast as a "thank you to our hosts" treat. We went to a pancake house near their house we had never been to before. It was good. We actually were on the road by 9a.m. But it takes 2 hours to get clear of Chicago traffic, and then you go into the Eastern Time Zone near Walkertpn, IN and all of a sudden it's after noon! And then we hit about 100 miles of blowing snow and poor visibility and traffic slowed to 35 mph, and it was after 3pm before we got to Ohio. Then things cleared up and we were able to make good time and got to Monroeville, OH by 5:45 and stopped to say hello to Rev. Wayne Chasney, son of an old Drury College friend, Chuck Chasney, who died last April. Chuck was best man at Shirley's and my wedding back in 1955. Wayne is the very image of his dad. He's pastored a UCC church in Monroeville for 21 years, but I had never met him before. We got a quick tour and promised we'd be back. We went on to a favorite restaurant in Oberlin OH - the Aladdin (great falafel salads) and then tried to figure out where to get to for the night. We ended up here in Erie, which is pretty much the half-way point. John very kindly has turned on the heat back home so it won 't be totally frigid in the house . Thank you John ! He says the driveway is icy under snow. Our neighbor Zac who plows for us says he raked 3 1/2 feet of snow off the roof. That's a first.
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