[Maddie] After getting off to a slightly late start, we made good time driving to western Pennsylvania. We decided to stop for lunch at a scenic rest area that my father refers to as "The Notch" due to its proximity to a huge gash blasted through the mountains to allow highway 68 to be built. You can see the interior of the mountain where it has been blown away, a beautiful rippling series of u-shaped stripes riddling the rock face. The strata of the rocks, oddly, is concave, as opposed to the horizontal marks you would expect to be left by a river or the convex shapes that would indicate that the mountain was formed by shifting of tectonic plates...curious. We'll probably be seeing a lot more impressive rock formations in our travels, but after spending so long in the flatlands of Maryland and Delaware, it's nice to experience some change in altitude and the view of the valley below with the steeple of a white church visible in the distance was beautiful.Apart from having to make a pit stop to extract Adele from the unbuckled seat-belt she had managed to get herself hopelessly tangled up in the rest of the drive went smoothly. We spent the night in a little town called Beaver Falls- nice people, Christmas light bedecked trees and an early early morning thunderstorm, then we were on the road again to Cleveland, Ohio.
[Geoff] Went to Rock & roll Hall of Fame today. Way cool! Best part (for me) was right when we walked in: display of 4 guitars Irwin made for Jerry: Top Hat, Lightening, Wolf Jr....and Rosebud! We had a great time. Could have spent a week in there. Oh, yeah, the set from The Wall tour was really cool. After this Starbucks hit, a short drive to Sandusky, OH.
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