Sunday, June 28, 2009

Cozy Inn, Salina, Kansas

[caption id="attachment_428" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Two slider-style burgers from Cozy Inn in Salina, Kansas."]Two slider-style burgers from Cozy Inn in Salina, Kansas.[/caption]

"When you go to the Hole, you smell like the Hole." It's a reliable prediction regarding The Watering Hole in Lincoln, Nebraska. But the Hole's clingy aroma of grease pales in comparison to that of Salina, Kansas' Cozy Inn in both pleasantness and potency. When you go to the Cozy, you smell like the Cozy ... as do your clothes, your car, and any room you enter for hours thereafter.

Cozy Inn's been around since 1922 and they're still using the same tiny grill to fry up slider-style burgers. In the tee-niny cooking area behind the six-stool counter, the cook presses small balls of fresh hamburger meat into a bed of sizzling onions. The resulting odor is captivating, but will stick to you like glue. Do not eat there prior to a business meeting. Four sliders, chips and a pop will run you $5.74, if I remember correctly. There's nothing else on the menu. Highly recommended.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009

We're going to Europe!


We bought the tickets last night for a July 7-28 trip to Europe. We fly into Frankfurt from Lincoln (it was $45 cheaper than leaving from Omaha or Kansas City, if you can believe that), then possibly head to Heidelberg to stay with a friend of a friend. After that it's Munich for joy by the liter in the Biergarten, then Passau to rent bicycles for a 200-mile mosey along the Danube to Vienna. From there we finish in Budapest, where a friend has graciously loaned us his apartment.