Cleveland Road Trip

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Here is a recap of a late summer 2015 road trip (Aug. 28 to 30) from Toronto, Ontario to Cleveland, Ohio by former TORONTO 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Organizing Committee employees Sam COREA (CAN) and Brian McANDREW (CAN).

Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field

By the Numbers:

One Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland

One Cleveland casino

Two Great Lakes (Ontario and Erie)

 

Two countries (Canada and USA)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Two baseball games (Cleveland Indians and Buffalo Bisons)



Two post-game fireworks displays

Three days

Three Great Lakes cities: Buffalo, Erie and Cleveland

Downtown Buffalo

Three States: New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio

A pub in Erie



Four Interstate Highways: I-90, I-190, I-290 and I-79
 

Four post-secondary institutions: Cleveland State University, Case Western University, Canisius College, University of Buffalo

Four sports stadiums: Progressive Field, Q Arena and FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland; Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo


Five $1-ball park hot dogs

The Terminal Tower in Cleveland

Six micro-brewery samplings

 

20 original Anchor Bar Buffalo chicken wings


60 hours


1,000 kilometres

GNS sc/bm

(Written in the Games News Service style)