May 4 – We took our sweet time get up and around this morning. Relished our leisurely cup of slow drip coffee by Amy, and she fixed a delicious vegan breakfast.

We headed to Cleveland to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Amy drove and I was able to sit back and watch the scenery go by.

We rolled up, went inside and set Han up with a wheelchair, then proceeded to begin our walk through the history of music. It was better than I had figured on. I love music but Han is the HUGE music lover. So I was happy that we both equally enjoyed ourselves. The stories, the music playing, the outfits, the instruments and amazing amount of memorabilia kept us interested and even the design of the building was quite unique along with the surrounding areas to gaze at through all the windows. It is right on the water which made it all the better for us.

Of course the one person who stood out from the rest was “Prince”, since he was the most recently passed artist and I have always been fond of his music.

I could hear doves cry in the distance.

Afterwards we headed back towards Willoughby and had lunch at the Willoughby Brewing Company. Amy and I had the Erie Street Tacos and they were small but filling and OH SO good. We ate every little morsel. Han ordered the Secret Recipe Fried Chicken and he thought it better than his other favorite fried chicken. Believe it or not, that would be Publix Supermarket.

We dropped Han off at the house so he could do some work and us girls took off for some sightseeing. I had wanted for Amy to show me her beach where she collects sea glass, but the weather did not cooperate and was too cold and drizzly.

We drove around, took in some breathtaking scenery, looked at some HUGE homes aka possible hotels, went to the first Mormon Temple in Kirkland, Amy shared some of her childhood memories and then we went shopping at this very cool store in town called “Enchanted Grove”. I purchased four gemstones that now travel with me wherever I go. They each have different qualities and every time I see them I think of my dear friend Amy.

After we had played hooky long enough, we went back to wind down with beer and pizza. Amy’s mom, dad, son and daughter-in-law stopped over. I had previously met everyone else besides her dad, and he is just as great as I had imagined. Really enjoyed sitting around and just cutting up being silly.

Sooner or later the party has to end (especially if you are above a certain age) and hit the bed to get ready for another 3 day of driving to Forida. Boo-Hiss….

The trip from Whitehall south turned morbidly sad through Ohio. We have now traveled thousands of miles, on many different roads across the US and never have we seen so many dead deer and other evidence of roadkill, than we saw in Ohio. It seemed like at least every other mile there was a dead deer and every half a mile a dead possum or skunk or squirrel. So many deer in fact that I purchased deer horn alerts off Amazon for our friends Amy and Jeff to place on their vehicles. We have them on our car and had not even close calls through many wild life areas.  But sometimes in the high plains areas of Wyoming we actually saw animals in the distance lift their heads to look around. Are they hearing the horns? I don’t know but it certainly cannot hurt to install these simple, inexpensive and possibly life saving devices. You can get them at http://www.amazon.com/Custom-Accessories-17381-Chrome-Alert/dp/B000BO71UC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462897814&sr=8-1&keywords=deer+horn+alerts

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