As we left Pennsylvania and made our way into Ohio, we started working on figuring out how to get our RV into downtown Cleveland so we could visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Initially, we thought we would try to park at a Wal-mart and take the Cleveland Rapid Transit downtown. We even found a Wal-mart with a Rapid connection, but then we learned that the Rapid did not operate on Sunday.....and, of course, we were stopping on Sunday. So, we went back to the drawing board....actually, to the Internet.
We could tell from the Web site that the Hall of Fame does not have a parking lot of its own. I called and learned that they encouraged people to park in various parking garages, none of which could accommodate an RV. The person I spoke with told me that we could park where the buses park. That sounded like a fine plan, and we figured that we could maneuver the area if buses could. However, we had a little trouble finding the bus parking area and ended up having to turn around in the middle of a two-lane downtown street with cars parked on both sides. We had no choice but to turn around since Lake Erie was in front of us and there were no more streets to turn on. We turned into a driveway and I proceeded to walk out into the street and hold up my hands to stop traffic. Then Roger backed up and worked his way around. He's getting really good at such tricks!
We eventually found the bus parking spot and headed into the museum. Since we are 60's and 70s people, it was a wonderful step back in time for us. We enjoyed the museum immensely, although we did come away with two major suggestions for management: 1--Call Graceland and talk to them about the one-headphone-per-person plan. It is crazy to ask 20 people in a room to share two or three headphones. And, since this is a music museum, we want to hear the music as we go along. Plus, who wants to put on a headphone that a stranger has just taken off? 2--Change the way names and words are displayed on the Hall of Fame video. This video is absolutely wonderful except for the name and wording overlays. People cannot visually read names and words that are six feet high and spread over three room-sized screens. We really wanted to read all the names, but even though we worked together and focused on it constantly, we missed about 25% of it because it was visually impossible to catch.
Since we were so into the museum, the two issues above were quite frustrating, and we were surprised that they could have made the choices they did since the problems were glaringly obvious.
Unfortunately, it was raining a little as we went into the museum, so they closed the Johnny Cash traveling bus. Since it is out side the museum, wet feet are a problem. Since we are RVers and Johnny Cash fans, we were sorry to miss seeing the bus. The sign next to it said that the bus had four private rooms--one for June, one for Johnny, one for their son, and one for the bus driver. The sign also said that Johnny had toured in several different regular RVs, but they would not hold up to the heavy use. So, Johnny finally had a regular passenger bus custom fit to his needs and was able to use it for 20 years .
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