Clearfield, PA tonight

We left Bartlett this morning pretty early (for us) - a bit after 8:00a.m. Looking at weather forecasts, we decided to stay south of the Erie, PA area, and took I-80 due east from Chicago into PA and as far as Clearfield.

On the way we stopped at travel plazas, of course. One was clearly very new and modern:

                   A very modern, all glass, dining area

                           We like Popeye's red beans and rice

Ellen drove over 650 miles today, but we got here by 8:00pm, which is our usual time to stop. We are in a Rodeway Inn. (We actually stayed here in this same motel in 2015, but had forgotten about it). Our host is a very genial man, whom I take to be Pakistani, who has been owner here for 10 years. I asked him if he enjoyed being here, and he said, "Yes, except the winters!" He formerly lived in Arkansas, near Texarkana, where I lived in 1941. So we shared our Arkansas experience for a bit.

We should be home by mid-afternoon tomorrow.