From Cobleskill to Cooperstown was slightly less than one hour's drive. The road was local two-way Country Road. I lost where we were on the map, but all things went well and my husband found a pretty good parking spot at only a few minute's walk from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
I felt electrified. The history. The tradition and the will to save it, and the passion to play. I felt hot inside.
But at the same time, I felt I was in NY Yankees' territory. I could have enjoyed much more if I were a Yankees' fan. Later, I found out that my husband was feeling the same way. Our conclusion is, the HoF must have been made first to enshrine the incredibly talented batter, Babe Ruth. He must have been too good to just keep in memory. People must have thought that they (we) need something special to record his greatness. The rest of the exhibits just followed his memorials after that, we guess. Anyway, it is a great place to visit for a baseball fan for sure.
Lunch; Autumn Cafe at Oneonta, NY Hot Open Veggie, BLT, Plain Omelette
Note; My husband has been in Oneonta before with his business. He talked again and again about the curried fish he had at this Cafe. We visited one of family "legends", so to speak.
From Oneonta, it was only a driving to Newark, to be closer to the airport.
I took over the steering at a service center on I-90. The weather was not good, raining on and off, sometimes very hard.
I started feeling a slight headache near Newark. It was just impossible to give back the steering to my husband, so I just kept on driving, which was good, because I couldn't have navigate that complicated direction near the hotel, and my husband couldn't have find the right access road to the hotel under that construction and one-way madness.
Hotel; Best Western Riverview Inn & Suites, Rahway, NY
It was a little past 7:00 after my husband picked up his last prescription medicine at nearby Walgreens and arrived at hotel. We just went out for dinner, but I started to feel a little dizzy while driving, and my husband took the steering. Thus, my driving days are over. Maybe I was too tired. Maybe it is my female hormone working weird. I just didn't feel like driving anymore. I am done. I am not going to drive in Japan. We will not even own a car; it is just too expensive and we don't need it. I didn't become a good driver after all.
Dinner; Dennys (again) Double cheese burger, Grilled chicken salad with Ranch dressing (again), Mac & cheese (again) with pineapple
It was almost 8:00 when we got to the restaurant. My daughter ate almost all the food. I am so sorry to made her that hungry. She was happy anyway.
We are running out of clean clothes. Our hotel doesn't have a guest laundry, so we dropped in at a K-mart and bought some underwear. This kind of thing is what we can do now but couldn't do five years ago. We learned a lot, we got used to living here a lot. We are going to miss a lot of things for sure.
End milage; 2467.3 mile
1 day in America
Tomorrow, we are leaving the hotel at 7:30 to get the 11:10 flight to Narita, Tokyo. I am not sure I have time to post anything at the airport, even if Wi-Fi is available. This is going to be the last post from America.
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