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Bill's Travel Log Late May

I rent a car a day early, get up early on Saturday and as I hear Cab Calloway singing about the King of Sweden- I head west. I drive 3 hours west and stop at the Blue Mountain rest stop on the PA turnpike. Another 3 hours later I am at the Century III Mall in West Mifflin , PA just south of Pittsburgh. In one of the empty anchor stores Todd McDevitt had a 2 day comic book show , the Three Rivers Comicon. I took a ride because I have a theory where all the good books in the country are, I wanted to see the show in the empty mall space and I have seen the Dollar Tree across from the store. So I took a ride in a rental car , listened to satellite radio for 300 miles(a must on these long rides) and saw something different.

I went in, bought some comics, said “Hi” to some people I know, met Don Simpson , creator of Megaton Man , and took a walk to see Todd McDevitt’s store New Dimension Comics - Century III that has a store in the mall. Todd’s store is HUGE 3000 plus square feet and gaming space next door. I counted 500 plus comic book boxes in the store (by my math that is a bit less than 150,000 comics for sale in the store. That is a lot of funnybooks- so when you want to know where all the comics are- a lot are in Todd’s stores in western PA.) I looked around and remembered there was another show in Harrisburg. I left and wanted to see if I could make it. I drive out of town and stop at the Sheetz for the gas for the ride home ( another must stop for the ride home) pass the Primanti Bros.( no time for a giant sandwich) and had east.

Well, I didn’t make it. About an hour and a half back on the turnpike I just figuratively ran out of gas. I had to stop and walk around a little have some turnpike pizza.( stopped to look at the Elephant statue in Somerset.) But by the time I reached Harrisburg , the show was over. So 5:30 I am on the road a little east of the Pennsylvania’s capitol. A smart man would have got a room, went to the Hoss's Family Steak & Sea Company (Where the food is Hosssome!) and hit the show the next morning. Not me – still daylight- I went home.

Pittsburgh and back in one day. I couldn’t and wouldn’t have done it that way if I had company.

Next the Albany show, start to work on CHUD and the 4th of July shindig.

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