Leaving New Orleans, we began our great cannonball run northward. We got in touch with the Reisners in Nashville that morning and were able to work out a place to crash for the night in their six-week-old home in Franklin, Tennessee. Tennessee to Columbus was punctuated by a stop in Louisville, Kentucky at Lynn’s Paradise Café. Lynn is profiled in Road Food, but we first caught wind of her while watching an episode of Bobby Flay’s “Throwdown” on the Food Network. He rolled into Louisville and challenged Lynn to a breakfast cooking competition. Lynn won, and Phil ordered her winning Bourbon Ball French Toast, and it was even better in person than it looked on TV.
A couple of days in Columbus with The Wrays, and we headed to Ithaca. The weather could not have been better, the air was crisp and cool and the foliage was stunning. We picked up apples and fresh cider and stayed later than planned on Friday to take advantage of the real reason we moved back east: access to hockey games. Well, in this case, a quasi-game-scrimmage-thing, the annual Cornell Red/White game. The play was a little sloppy, but the game was a lot of fun. We spent a night in Albany, picked up some of our stuff the next morning at the storage facility, and have spent the last few days settling into our home for the next 6+ months.