We are currently at the Allegany Mountain Resort in Western NY. We are staying for a few days to explore Niagara Falls/Buffalo area. The country is pretty with green grass rolling hills and lots of trees that are starting to get Fall colors.

We drove through Chicago during rush hour, but that was OK as we were going so slow we could look around a lot. We also managed to hit Cleveland during rush hour, but traffic was a lot less there.

Some interesting things happened while driving quickly across the country. There was a trucker who had no load on his flatbed except a "tonka toy" dump truck that was all strapped down in the middle of the great expanse. We also saw a sign at a gas station in Wisconsin that said, "Get Packers tickets without donating your spleen!" We found this especially funny as we had just finished listening to the only radio program that we could get clearly that was some local doctor giving too much information about the spleen. There was also the "Spam" museum (a wonderful brick building) in Austin, Minnesota - it is apparently a "Hormel" town!