Two Old Farts Doing the Lincoln Crawl-- Part 1

Well, these days, it is more of a tottering than crawl, but at least with a crawl, you're closer to the ground.

Arrived in Dekalb, Illinois, yesterday, and after a two hour talk with the Dean of the College of Education at Northern Illinois about an endowment, we checked into the Magnuson Inn & Suites on Il-38, the old Lincoln Highway.

We then hit the road to do some NTNin' and visiting old haunts.


TEQUILA ROADHOUSE

Our first stop was to visit a new place out on Greek Row, north of campus, called Tequila Roadhouse. They just got NTN which was the main reason for going, figuring that they had a Mexican/southwest ambiance. You know, "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!!"

Were we in for a surprise.

The first thing I noticed on walking in was a complete set of all eight Route 66 state shields along one wall.

Then, I saw a 66 shield on the bar. Mentioned to the bartender as he was getting out boards that we appreciated all the Route 66 stuff, something you don't expect to see at a college bar. He said to look at the bar.

Wow!

Starting at one end and working its way along to the other were a series of postcards and pictures of the Mother Road starting in Chicago and working its way to Santa Monica, along with shields and the crest of every fraternity on campus these days, unfortunately, no Delta Sigma Phi since we have now had two chapters fold.


SOME NTN

Sure didn't expect this pleasure. I don't think they will have NTN too long as on a Countdown as we started late and I played poorly on the last five questions, getting 3,300 points and had the number four score for the month. A 6,400 Buzz Time score landed me at number two.

The bartender was a Phi Sig whose house was right across the street (now that sure is handy. he said the owner also has a place in Wrigleyville in Chicago called the Roadhouse 66 and that has even more Route 66 stuff.

The bartender is in his last semester and can't wait to get out of town and to Chicago. I can't imagine anyone preferring Chicago to Dekalb. I sure wouldn't want to live there.

Remember our last guv, Blago, who wouldn't live in the governor's mansion, preferring instead to keep residence back in Chicago.

Hey, Just Getting Started Here. --RoadDog