After doing our part to stimulate the economy at the outlet mall, we checked into a KOA campground and then drove around, looking for somewhere to eat dinner. We soon discovered that all those Canadian shopping tourists had to eat too and all the local restaurants had waits in excess of an hour. So, deeper … Continue reading →

We left Buffalo after breakfast and started our journey south. We crossed into Pennsylvania, then went on a search for Amish country, but at the exit we were told to take there was a surprise for Dale: the world’s largest outlet mall! At least that’s how they advertise it. When we pulled in, there were … Continue reading →

Here’s the view up and down the shoreline in front of where the Kelso Beach Hotel stood. That building on the left looks like it was built on the hotel’s foundation. My grandfather took me fishing for catfish from that pier. This is where the hotel used to be. It burned down right after they … Continue reading →

We drove on down to the lake. My grandparents’s hotel was directly on Lake Erie at the bottom of the hill. There was a walkway that paralleled the shoreline and I used to walk down the path to a little general store that sold penny candy from big glass jars. The store is gone, but … Continue reading →

In 1960, a little over 50 years ago, the year Sandy was born, I spent the summer in Erie, Pennsylvania, with my mother’s parents, Honey and Gramps. They owned and operated a hotel on Lake Erie at the time and they lived in a cottage on a bluff above the beach in a little neighborhood … Continue reading →

Hey Sandy! We made it to Pittsburgh around 3:00 today and found the house we lived in when you were born! Here it is: There was a guy across the street cutting his grass, so I went over and said to him, “I lived in that house 50 years ago.” He said, “I lived here … Continue reading →