Lost in Pittsburg

On the road this morning heading for Pittsburg. We should have realized that the day was not going to go well when I was unable to find the address of our hotel in the GPS. Having had more experience with a GPS (right!!), Graham took the GPS and handed it back to me with an address programmed in and off we headed.

We had decided that we were going to find a Friendly’s restaurant for luch – at least for a sundae. The first Friendly’s that the GPS found no longer existed – we found the building, but Friendly’s was gone. The second one, took us about 6 miles off the Interstate, which was fine with us – we wanted ice cream – Friendly’s Family Restaurant, no ice cream!! We ended up eating at a little restaurant called The Copper Pot where lunch cost us a whole $10.00, but no ice cream. One of the owners came up while we were finishing up and drinking our coffee – he pulled up a chair and started to talk with us. Small towns are fascinating!

We continued on to Pittsburg. At about 9:30 we left the Interstate for our hotel as programmed in to the GPS by Graham. After about an hour, we ended up in the middle of no where close to a village called Valencia – no hotel anywhere to be seen! So, Graham called the hotel to get directions – the poor young lady had never heard of Valencia and had no idea where it was. Interestinly, when Graham called information for the phone number, information informed him that the hotel was in Uniontown, not Unionville. With that information, I was able to program the GPS with the correct address and away we went – through rural Pennsylvania for 1 ½ hours. It was almost 12:30 when we finally found the hotel.

While I was responsible for misnaming the town Unionville instead of Uniontown, I also suggested, before we left the street where our hotel was in Savannah that we should go back and recheck the address before we headed off when I couldn’t find it. Hopefully lesson learned by all!!!