April 4 Wednesday Day 38 tonight staying in Maumee – Toledo Ohio – Comfort Inn

Light snowing yesterday Wednesday! Think we are back home.

Woke up this morning and there is snow on the car, must be warm enough as it slid off the car.

Not much to say about today as we are on the toll road and very little cash left and we don't like to use the ATM. We have seen six J&R Schugel trucks on the road today. Most in central Pennsylvania. A Viessman tanker from North Mankato/Gary SD also spotted. In between I wrote the last two days blogs. For lunch we had a Norton all beef hotdog from a service center on the tollway. Norton weenies are from New York City supposedly the best! They were good, I burped them up for hours, for some reason Shirleen does not? jerr
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What did we have for dinner, almost forgot it. When you eat at the Olive Garden, it is easy to forget because we do it so often. Shirleen’s cabernet and pizza with Roma tomatoes, onions, pepperoni, and mushroom. She ate half of it. I had one of there new dishes, Wow was it good, Crab Alfredo Venezia begins with tender snow crab in a creamy seafood Alfredo sauce, served over spaghetti that is tossed with fresh spinach and diced Roma tomatoes. Recipe right off their website. The perfect accompaniment to this dish is Olive Garden’s Principato Rosato, a light-bodied blush wine. I followed the suggested wine, so so. They will have this dish through April 8th.
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Seeing that we are road warriors now and not traditional gypsies I will try and define some things I have written and others I have not because of time. The word antebellum was used when we toured Charleston, truthfully I had no clue what it meant. Someone mentioned the meaning and I looked up the following in Answers.com and here is what I found.

Ante Bellum
Before the war. Usually used to describe the United States before the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). Typically spelled antebellum in English.

Antebellum is a Latin word meaning "before war" (ante means before and bellum war). In United States history and historiography, the term antebellum is often used to refer to the period of increasing sectionalism leading to the American Civil War, instead of the term "pre-Civil War". In that context, the Antebellum Period began with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, or could be set as early as 1812. Sometimes it is called the Old South.

Romanticism
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...
— From the opening of the film Gone with the Wind (1939)

I again thought why have I not remembered what the word meant. Of course, we in the north do not relive the civil war as those of southern extraction. We saw many confederate rebel battle flag, the typical large red with the blue banner from corner to corner with 13 stars in the blue field. It ain’t dead yet. Jerr
Maybe more to come today??