CLEVELAND – Trums Travels

Last summer (2023) Clint and I decided to head down to Kentucky and Tennessee for a few weeks, with our trailer. We hadn’t been to either of these States but wanted to check out a few things. Our first stop was near Grafton, Ohio to stay a couple of nights as we wanted to check out some things in Cleveland. We stayed at the American Wilderness Campground just outside of Grafton. I would recommend this campground if it wasn’t for the fact that we arrived there at 1:15 and check in wasn’t until 3 pm and we were charged extra even though there was mostly empty sites. Then after we paid she asked if we were Good Sam’s members, we said yes, and so she had to delete the transaction and start over because she owed us $5. She had a rough time figuring that out. We would have told her to forget about it if not for the charging us for being there early, so we made her work for that extra money. There was another thing that happened that annoyed us, suffice to say, we will not stay there again but it suited our purposes at the time.

So on to Cleveland ! We went to Cleveland for the day and we had a great deal of fun. First stop was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was amazing. Six floors of displays and info and we were there over 3 hours. Tickets for 2 was about $70 US but it was worth it. One of the small theatres you could sit and watch Dick Clarks American Bandstand, which I used to watch when I was a lot younger. What a lot of memories!

Piano played by Jerry Lee
U2 one of my favourite groups
You could try all kinds of instruments in this room
A view from upstairs
another of my favourite groups, Rush
Johnny Cash tour bus

We were a couple of hours wandering around and seeing everything, there is a lot to see and if you love music, it’s well worth the visit.

After that we headed to the Great Lakes Science Centre which was also very interesting and informative. And then a tour of the Clifford G Mather ship.

Science Centre
Lots of info
Clifford G Mather
On top of the ship
Galley
View from the ship

Clint also toured a submarine, on his own, I do not like the tiny little holes to go through and all the weird stairs lol. We drove by their big baseball park and walked around downtown. After all our touring we deserved a beer so off to Great Lakes Brewery.