Back up the road a bit, a local pastor/auto dealer stopped me to talk. He gave me five bucks to buy lunch and wanted to give me his card, but couldn't find one on him. As his wife dug through the glovebox looking for one, he chatted with me. "So where'd you start? New York City? That's great, that's great. Now, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?" And so the sermon began.
As you may recall, I was given an Applebee's gift certificate by Denee and Scott a while back. It's valid in the greater Pittsburgh area, including, it says, State College and Altoona. I found an Applebee's right on my route in Hermitage, PA, closer to Pittsburgh than either of the aforementioned cities. But they refused to accept my gift certificate, so I continued on down the road toward the greater Cleveland area.