Today, Mom and I embarked on our journey across the country. I took a job in Lake Tahoe, CA and Mom was awesome enough to agree to drive out with me. As I've never been farther inland in the US than West Virginia, this should be quite the adventure.
As a vegetarian, I thought it would be interesting to see how difficult it would be to find meatless fare on the road. Just in case, we packed a LOT of emergency snacks (and charles shaw). 
We drove about 8 hours from Virginia to Ohio, stopping outside of Pittsburgh for lunch. We dreamed of french fry sandwiches at Primanti Brothers, but alas, did not have a GPS to guide us there. We settled on the Eat n' Park, a chain restaurant that we had long laughed about (shouldn't it be PARK and then EAT?). Either way, we were pleasantly surprised. For what seemed like a shlocky chain restaurant, they actually had a good number of vegetarian options. They even conveniently listed all of their vegetarian dishes on the back of their menu. Mom and I both ordered gardenburgers, which we found sufficiently delicious. We also had an adorable server named Tina whom we will probably reference for the remainder of the trip.
We made it as far Toledo. Maumee to be exact. Maumee, OH. We'll send you a postcard. We settled quite nicely into our Comfort Inn with our car snacks and Charles Shaw, but took a recommendation from the front desk and hoofed it over to the Holiday Inn restaurant across the street. The place was completely empty - not entirely shocking considering we were in a street comprised solely of hotel chains and Friendly's restaurants on a Monday night - but we were exctied to see the $4.50 house wine. I was a little concerned that there was exactly one vegetarian dinner option on the menu, but que sera, sera. The vegetarian pizza was fine, and Mom really liked her Walleye.
Lesson(s) Learned: Ohio is full of tractors and corn. If all else fails, order pizza.
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