Gone NTNin' Red Carpet Corridor and DeKalb

Two weeks ago, while on the Red Carpet Corridor Festival, we stopped at two NTN sites in Bloomington, Illinois, Maguires and B-Dub (Buffalo Wild Wings). These did not count as new sites as we had been to both in the past.

Maguires is more of what you'd call a townie bar (Illinois State University is located in Normal and Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington). We had been to Maguire's once before on our very first Route 66 trip in 2002. It was a welcome respite after the huge snowstorm between Joliet and Pontiac back then. We had some great goulash if I remember correctly.

We hadn't been back since as we normally drive around B-N as there is very little of Route 66 left, nor do the towns seem to care. So, usually its I-55 around from Towanda to McLean or Shirley/Funks Grove.

Today, we are driving to DeKalb where Liz and I will be signing papers for our scholarship in the College of Education at NIU. I see that the B-Dub, Otto's and Fatty's (home of deep-fried Cajun potato salad and on Lincoln Highway) still have NTN, but one other place has dropped it.

However, Upper Deck, on the Lincoln Highway which serves at Main Street through town, now has NTN, plus, so does Joker's in nearby Sycamore, so plan on adding these two to our nearly 900 list of different NTN sites we've visited. I doubt that anyone else has ever gone to as many.

Cruisin' and NTNin'. --RoadDog