Road trip to Pittsburgh
General Nov 15, 2008 The Waffle 1 Comment As I told you in this post, Jerry and I went on a road trip to Pittsburgh for a formidable sports week-end. Nobody seemed in favour of us stopping at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, so we didn’t make the detour. I still thought about it, since it would have only added an hour and 43 minutes of travel time. But then, another 5 hours to eat the Beer Barrel Belly Buster would have been too much to make it in time for the Sabres–Penguins game at the Mellon Arena. Instead, we stayed on the I-90, also known as the AMVETS Memorial Highway. Part of the Dwight Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways, the I-90 is the longest Highway in the United States, almost 5000 km long from Massachussets to the State of Washington. We passed a bunch of service areas, and, as…