Rick took the day off and showed me around Fort Wayne. We drove by the house where his parents lived, where I stayed a few days in 1969 on my way to my new duty station in Utah.
We checked out The Coney Island Hot Dog cafe in downtown Fort Wayne which has been there since Rick was a kid. It's a funky place but really busy. I had a dog, a coke in a small bottle and a piece of banana cream pie.
It was raining like mad all day but we went by this huge limestone quarry in town and checked it out from an observation tower. Man, it's one big hole, I would guess a mile across. Those little dots in the distance are huge rock-carrying trucks.
Hilary wanted to take me to an outdoor shopping mall that's styled in an Italian manner, but really, an old hot dog place and a big hole in the ground are my kind of tourist attractions.
Rick went to work today so we met him for lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Was I surprised to find the food as good as any in San Francisco!
Tomorrow I plan a trip to the War Museum in Auburn, the next town over.
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