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Our next stop on our cross country trip to New Jersey was in Cleveland, Ohio – home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the Hall of Fame's permanent home.

We stayed just outside of Cleveland the night before we went to the Hall of Fame. We wanted to get there when it opened and also to park as close as possible.

Our planning worked out perfectly. The museum opened at 10 a.m. and we got parking curbside right next to the museum.

Upon walking into the pyramid-shaped exhibit hall, you are handed a brochure that is your guide to seeing the exhibits. There are six levels of displays.

Only one singer had an entire room to tell his story – The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis. In addition to the display, there is a 14-minute film, created in collaboration with Elvis Presley Enterprises. It ends with the king singing “American Trilogy,” which was the feature number when I was doing my Elvis routine during the 1990s.

As my upper lip began to curl and I started to flip up my shirt collar, Diane pulled on the back of my shirt to keep me from standing up and going into my act.

“O.K. Elvis it’s time to go,” Diane said. “It’s time to get back on I-80.”

Driving through Pennsylvania brought back memories of last year’s trip across the state when it rained on us from border to border. And I don’t mean just a steady rain. At times the rain was so heavy that we could barely see the car in front of us. When that occurred, we looked for the nearest rest stop.

This year we had good weather driving across Pennsylvania. We did get a story to tell you though.

At a rest stop about midway across the state, I came across a biker who had a group of other travelers listening to him. I listened as I walked by. He was talking about an accident about five miles ahead that had the highway shut down on the east- bound lane.

“It looks like a fatality, so it could be closed for some time,” he said. He suggested bypassing the accident by taking the next exit and going through a town called DuBois. We ended up spending the night in DuBois. The town had a picturesque downtown reminiscent of the 1950s.

We happened onto a great Italian restaurant called Luigi’s.

It appeared to be something out of “The Godfather” movie.

There was a large print of Marlon Brando in his role as Don Corleone hanging among the hundreds of photos of the owner of the restaurant hugging past customers.

Looking around the dining room I recognized several of the couples I saw at the rest stop where the biker was talking.

I said to Diane, “It makes me wonder if that biker was working for the DuBois Chamber of Commerce? Otherwise we never would have known about Luigi’s in DuBois.

Well, it was only a short distance to daughter Dani’s apartment in Budd Lake, N.J. where we were going to stay the next five weeks

Speaking of travelers, did you see the photo of the pelicans at Fountain Park in Fountain Spouts? Occasional pelicans have found their way to the park in the past. They are usually found when a big storm blows in from the Pacific and the pelicans get caught in the winds such as when the remnants of Hurricane Rosa blew in last week.