Rock Hall and the Wm G Mather, August 8, 2010

Catching up on some Summer fun. These images are from a road trip to Cleveland, to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Mather was a spur of the moment thing, and turned out to be more fun than the Rock Hall.

Here's the Hall, shot from the deck of the Mather:

Chuck shooting me, shooting him, under the Rock Hall over hang:

The hall's built with a bunch of odd angles. Very weird experience climbing the stairs to the top, to see the 2-level Springsteen exhibit. Just.don't.look.over.the.edge...

The Mather - an old lake freighter turned into a floating museum. Very cool, especially in contrast to the Tall Ships which were in Cleveland in July. Two men to a tiny room in bunks, not luxurious, but vastly better than 50 hammocks strung up in a hold too short to stand upright in.

A couple of interiors, the engine room and the key rack in the captain's quarters (which, btw, were very much posher than the grunts' digs, all polished oak and fancy fittings).



And a fitting way to end this post, our flag, snapping in a brisk lake shore breeze.