Illinois was flat again. Not so exciting, either.
Today we drove through Indiana, Ohio, and a small chunk of Pennsylvania, then up into New York, where we found...vineyards! All this way from California, and still we find the grapevines:
It's a bit colder here, though! When we arrived at our hotel in Buffalo, it was 39 degrees with cold winds. We're not in California anymore, folks.
What's that you say? Is that a picture of the Anchor Bar, the legendary spot where the Buffalo chicken wing was invented? Why yes it is!
Stacey loves buffalo wings, so she was excited by the idea of trying out the originals. I have been to Buffalo many times, but have never been to the Anchor Bar. I worried about being disappointed. I'm not particularly a buffalo wing fan. I eat them, but I don't get that excited by them. And there are buffalo wings available everywhere these days. Would the Anchor Bar's wings stand out?
Yes! Stacey and I both have declared the Anchor Bar's buffalo wings the best we've ever had. The keys are the super crispy skin and the sauce-to-wing ratio. But mostly the super crispy skin. I'm a sucker for crispy chicken skin. We also ordered beef on weck, a western New York specialty consisting of sliced roast beef on what is called a kimmelweck roll, a kind of kaiser roll covered in salt and caraway seeds. I grew up eating this, courtesy of my upstate-New York-native mother, but Stacey had never had it. It was also a big hit. Top it all off with Genesee Cream Ale and Yuengling, and you have two happy travelers.
You know what else makes us happy? Tomorrow we will reach our destination!
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Yippeeee!! : )
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