Living the Dream Year 5 Day 209 – Holiday – WV to PA

Year 5, Day 209 “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 11/25/2025 – Holiday week – Spent the night at the Hilton Garden Inn in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Brought an European charger instead of the American one. It didn’t work in this hotel – lol.

The breakfast was awesome and cooked to perfection. In fact they provided the best breakfast we have ever had at this hotel.

The employees are all so sweet there. The manager walked in the front door while we were eating breakfast and said “Good Morning Mrs Tremper”. My response “Good Morning – You remember my name? Of course she responded – Dolores. Me – “Wow, that is impressive. How do you do that?” Manager – I remember you because you are always smiling. After I checked out I started thinking, was that comment about me a compliment or am I the weirdo? So the best part of this hotel is the employees. There are two items that they do need to address . 1 – Please wash the bathroom floor as it is gross. There was some water from the shower in the morning on the floor. Wiped it up with a white wash cloth and oh my goodness the cloth was black.

2 – The carpeting in the restaurant area is totally shot. It needs to be replaced as it is dirty and worn. Some of the reason for this is because this hotel sleeps a lot of gas and oil workers. You can actually smell the oil from their boots in the elevators. This happens if they have just traveled in the one you are using. We checked out at 7am. It is 46 degrees and raining as we head northeast to Jenna’s house loaded up like Santa Clause’s sleigh. HO-HO-HO.

Nice fall weather in Maryland.

There was lots of time to research Christmas entertaining dishes. These are great, easy, impressive, and individualized. The perfect Christmas Holiday appetizer to serve.

Ended the day in Pennsylvania watching basketball practice.

A little something to ponder.

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