Well, here we are...one day past what we originally calculated and it's our last night on the road. Tomorrow morning we head back home to face reality again...and a move!
We got up today and headed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame downtown...it opens at 10:00 and we were there right around then. It's a little pricey, but definitely turned out to be worth it. The lower level is the biggest...the building is actually an I.M. Pei pyramid, so the floors get smaller as they go up...and it's filled with tons of exhibits with memorabilia from Rock and Roll's Early Years, the Roots of Rock and Roll, Motown, Treasures From the Vault and more...we actually spent over three hours on the first floor. There are also a few different videos and a bunch of listening stations.
The second floor had Architects of Rock and Roll - Les Paul, Sam Philips and Alan Freed. On to the third floor, which is dedicated to the actual Hall of Fame inductees. It has a really cool video with clips of each inductee by year...1986 through 2010. Finally, the top two floors are for rotating exhibits - right now they are featuring Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park to the Promised Land, with tons of his clothing, album covers, video clips and pages from his songwriting notebooks. We stayed at the museum for at least 5.5 hours...and we could've stayed longer. One thing we would have also done if we had time was stay for the U2 movie they have, which is only $3 extra, but 80 minutes. The only issue is that they don't allow photography outside of the lobby area, so we had to check our camera.
We decided to purchase tickets for the Indians game tonight (the other day, we had intended to only spend one night in Cleveland and head to Pittsburgh tonight and go to a Pirates game...but we thought it would just be too exhausting with the driving), so we headed back to our room to get ready for the game. We were able to get $7 tickets, thankfully. For dinner, we went to a place right across from the stadium called Local Heroes Grill & Bar. Our waitress, Patrice, was really nice and the food was pretty decent...we tried some Great Lakes beer, which is local to the area.
We got to the stadium around 6:30 and took a bunch of pictures...including our very last Facebook contest photo (congratulations, Tim!) We decided, since there couldn't have been more than 5,000 people at the game, to just take it upon ourselves to sit much closer than $7 buys. The weather was pretty nice...a bit cold, but sunny. We wound up staying until around the 5th inning and then headed out.
Now we are back in our last hotel room of the trip...it's definitely a bittersweet feeling. We are excited to head home (and see our cat, who has been lovingly taken care of by our families and Tracy and Eric, our friendly neighbors...thank you so much, you guys...we literally could not have done this without your help), but at the same time, I think we will miss our road trip lifestyle...it has been amazing, the trip of a lifetime and we are happy to have had you along. See you soon!
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