{"id":1464,"date":"2015-06-12T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:38:55","slug":"friday-june-12-joliet-il-to-cleveland-oh-502-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/friday-june-12-joliet-il-to-cleveland-oh-502-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, June 12 — Joliet, IL, to Cleveland, OH (~ 502 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We took it fairly easy in the morning, getting up about 8 and having
\nbreakfast from our stash of yogurt and green tea in the room; we consulted
\nthe weather that was coming our way and decided, against initial plans, to
\npush on through to Cleveland, rather than stopping in Toledo (I have friends\u00a0I thought we might go see in both places). Again, we drove most of the day,\u00a0but this time, always a bit ahead of the rain, so it was much more pleasant. \u00a0We had perfectly decent “freeway Chinese” somewhere on the way through\u00a0Indiana, and once we were in Ohio, decided to take a slightly slower route,\u00a0along lake Erie, rather than continuing on the I-80. So we went a little\u00a0North in Toledo, and made our way through Sandusky etc., along the lake\u00a0shore, which was actually very pretty where we could see it (in many places\u00a0Road 2 and Road 6 were still too far from the actual shoreline. Sandusky\u00a0was very cute, and we loved seeing the little old-style motels and cabin\u00a0rentals still in business that have gone under in so many other places. But\u00a0we didn’t get out of the car until we had made it to Cleveland’s Museum of\u00a0Modern Art. My friend Paul, who is a Cleveland native, and whom we’ll meet\u00a0tomorrow morning, had the insider tips we needed–i.e. that the museum is\u00a0open until 9 pm on Fridays, and that it’s free!<\/p>\n

We got to the museum a little after 5, had dinner at the museum cafe (very
\nnice, as in most museum restaurants–Mark had a roast beef sandwich and I\u00a0had an Indian curry with chicken and lentils), and looked at the rooms and
\npieces that interested us most. The museum has a nice cross-section of art
\nfrom around the world, nothing that rocked my socks off, but some neat
\nrepresentative pieces (maybe I would have appreciated them more if it hadn’t\u00a0been the end of the day?). I liked the mid-life Matisse that I saw, and a\u00a0funny Max Ernst, and there were some design\/craft objects that were
\ninteresting, too. Mark liked a Matisse painting I hadn’t known, The
\nWindshield, On the Road to Villacoublay, from 1917, because it was such a
\ngood road trip picture and fit our mood. The best part was actually the
\nspace, since they solved the old building\/new building problem of so many
\nart museums with a huge atrium with a glass ceiling over the plaza between
\nold (1916) and new. I also liked the “Gallery One” space, which has some
\nelectronically enhanced exhibits, including a wall of touch screens where
\nvisitors can tap on individual pieces to get more information on them. That
\nwas fun!<\/p>\n

We left at about 8:15 and found our way to the ice-cream place in the
\nvicinity that Paul had recommended–Mitchell’s on Uptown St. We even
\nmanaged to get free parking for the half-hour that it took us to have what
\nwas truly marvelous ice cream. (I had hazelnut ice cream that tasted just
\nlike really good “German”-Italian hazelnut gelato–very nice!). The GPS
\nthen led us reliably to our hotel, which I had found en route through
\nWikipedia. It looks a bit sketchy from the outside, but we have a
\nspectacular view of the downtown skyline, and the room is just fine. Time
\nto turn in!<\/p>\n

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