Classic Trip - E Coast Odyssey - Cleveland, Ohio



Cleveland was form of an accident really. We had planned to halt at Erie, PA or Ashtabula, OH for the black on our agency to our side past times side halt but were making such expert fourth dimension nosotros pressed on to Cleveland.

Our get-go Cleveland minute was seeing the novel Brown's stadium amongst its message board flashing "CLEVELAND ROCKS" at us inwards larger than life letters. It was a plumbing equipment welcome because the urban marrow genuinely does rock.

Priority position out one, however, was finding a house to lay our caput this evening. We had no reservations for this black having left it opened upward for wherever nosotros mightiness land. Mostly, it was planned strictly every bit an overnighter on the way.

Consulting the AAA Tour Book, nosotros get-go made our agency to the Cross Country Inn on the westward side of town. They had a handicapped room available amongst 2 dinky total size beds for $59 a night. Thinking nosotros mightiness produce better, nosotros came upon a Radisson hotel nearby. They offered a real large, semi-accessible (no roll-in shower) room amongst a manlike someone monarch size bed as well as a total size sofabed amongst a total breakfast for $79. I willingly paid the extra $20 for a to a greater extent than comfortable room as well as food.

I did non regret my decision. The Radisson was an fantabulous hotel amongst a real comfortable as well as repose room.

We awoke to a fresh solar daytime amongst real picayune driving to produce then nosotros decided to pass it seeing what this urban marrow has to offering earlier moving on.

My boy as well as I would receive got loved to come across the Indians play at Jacobs Progressive Field but they were out of town this week. We settled on taking a tour of the stadium.

Inside the Press box at Jacobs Progressive Field

It was a wonderful tour. Starting out inwards the press box, nosotros got to sit down inwards the reporter's seats as well as produce simply about pretend play-by-play. Onward, nosotros were allowed to pass a few minutes inwards a luxury suite earlier seeing the club-level individual restaurant. Next, it's downwardly to plain score where nosotros went within the batting cages nether the stands as well as roamed the network of tunnels below street level. The tour finished off on the plain as well as into the Indians dugout where nosotros could sit down on the players bench as well as accept photos. We had a corking fourth dimension here.

The Indians' New Bench Warmers

Afterward, it's simply a curt hop on an accessible trolley over to the East Flats surface area where numerous restaurants offering corking nutrient as well as drinkable along amongst riverfront views of freighters coming inwards from Lake Erie. We had tiffin at Joe's Crab Shack which had expert nutrient as well as irksome service.

The Warsaw Tavern Really Exists!! (Except it's Really Called the Memphis Lounge)

Those summertime pelting storms came inwards over again then nosotros left the rockin' Cleveland. On the agency out, nosotros saw the tavern whose exteriors were used every bit shots of the Warsaw on the Drew Carey Show. Now it's on to Part Four...Cedar Point.

-Darryl
Copyright 2001 - Darryl Musick

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