Day 1: October 25, 2018 Almost Cleveland Comment via blog

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I didn't leave home particularly early but it was early enough that I had breakfast on my mind. An hour or so from home, a little online searching turned up Outside the Box Cafe in Jeffersonville, Ohio. The reviews were good, it looked promising from the outside, and a greeting from the regulars at the "liars table" when I entered left no doubt. It's family owned and operated and the family that owns it also owns a pig farm which produces all the pork served in the restaurant. I ordered what I took to be the smaller of a couple of specials and this is what I got. It was all great, especially that sausage, but I gave up way short of the halfway mark on that stack of pancakes.

It seemed reasonable, on the rock and roll focused journey, to make a two mile detour to pass through a town that shares its name with a Credence Clearwater Revival song. This isn't the place John Fogerty had in mind when he wrote the song (I'll be there in about a week.) but it's good to know that, if a musician did get stuck here, lessons and instrument repairs are available.

My roosting place is a little south of Cleveland in Independence, Ohio. The nearby Melt Bar and Grilled showed up in a search for breweries and that's where I headed for dinner. The brewery claim was totally false but they do have a good beer selection and an interesting cheese centric menu. My cheddar with salami was killer and came with about twice as many fries as I could handle.

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