July arrives

 So Phil is off in Ireland on a music tour and apparently having a great time. I am catching up on a list of things that i have procrastinated about for - well- plenty of time... next week is busy with my last medical stuff for hte summer and a visit for friend Carolyn as well as a dinner with Todd & Evie and Frank. Meanwhile I have been getting through some of the stuff in the frig (last cleaned out when???LOL) 

I was eating breakfast today and a memory of the best breakfast I ever had on a road trip popped into my head. Phil is in Ireland and so that might have jogged my memory because I was going to text him to look out for this option.  We had no idea what a "boxty" was when TB and I entered the Lawrence Park Dinor but the staff explained it was an Irish recipe for an omelet wrapped in a hash brown potatoes pancake. Well let me tell you we both hopped on that suggestion and ordered the boxty special of the day. It was fabulous. And now a great memory of the best road trip breakfast.

You just know one of those pie pieces is gonna make it into TB's morning order...LOL - there he sits below (to the bottom left in the photo) waiting for the BOXTY reveal!

 

a truly worthy stop on the road in Eire PA. and later in the morning we had to stop for a snack because timing was off for a full meal when we pulled into the White Turkey Drive-in. (est 1952 in Conneaut Ohio)  We had root beer floats and onion rings to get a feel for the place- also worthy. Located past the Ohio border as we continued around the Lake Erie shoreline. 

So it's July the Fourth and I am not feeling the America I once knew - but I know there are traces out there because we find them every year on the DART (Disappearing America Road Trips).