Day 6: New Hampshire and Salem, Massachusetts

Today was by far our longest day in the car. Note: Wendy's new Asian Chicken boneless wings are just their same old chicken nuggets in a new sauce and are way too messy to eat on a road trip. I should have stuck with the Spicy Chicken Go Wrap. We made a side trip today to go to "The Fun Spot," an arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire. Why would we go to an arcade when we have Haunted Trails at home? Well, this arcade is the biggest in North America, has a huge collection of classic video games, and is featured in one of our favorite documentaries, "The King of Kong." If you haven't seen this movie, run, don't walk, to your computer (wait, you're already there!) and put in your Netflix queue. It's a documentary about two men who are battling to have the world record in "Donkey Kong." Yes, I played "Donkey Kong" on the machine from the movie, and we also played a variety of classic games like "Hogan's Alley," "Burger Time," an awesome beer-themed game called "Tapper," and all varieties of "Pac-Man." Also amusing in Laconia: We stopped at a gas station, where Brian encountered a guy attempting to enter the gas station sans shirt. The guy was kind of pale and exclaimed to Brian, "Hey, somebody call the Ghostbustahs!" Upon entering, he was told to get out and put on a shirt, leading the guy to exclaim, "But I've been workin' out." No shirt, no shoes, no service: put into action in New Hampshire. Their motto may be, "Live free or die," but that doesn't mean without a shirt.

We got to Salem in time for a late dinner, and ate at a restaurant called the Witches' Brew, which was good but not as exciting as its name. More exciting was the ice cream we tried at Captain Dusty's Ice Cream: frozen pudding ice cream, which had rum raisins and maraschino cherries in it. Tomorrow: witchy women in Salem, then off to Boston for the Red Sox game.