One of our favorite books to bring with us when traveling is called "1,000 Things to do Before you Die". The Northeast (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) has more than it's fare share of entries. One of them was a hot dog place about 40 minutes south of us called Rutt's Hut. We looked it up and did a little internet searching, and found that there are a couple of hot dog joints in the area. One of the places called Libby's Lunch seemed to have a lot more than hot dogs, which was good since pregnant Katie isn't supposed to eat hot dogs.
The notable thing about the hot dogs in this area is that they are fried as opposed to grilled of boiled. Libby's calls their hot dogs Texas Weiners (Rutt's calls theirs "rippers"), but the coolest thing we noticed was they were founded by a Greek family and had a special kind of chili. Sounds very familiar... So we got some chili cheese fries, and it did taste a bit like our beloved Cincinnati chili. Charlie got a couple of those fried hot dogs, while Katie stayed with the greek theme and got a chicken gyro. It was very good, and worth the drive.
There is a New Jersey State park right across the street, so we also took a little time to walk around the Great Falls of the Passaic River. Nothing like Niagara Falls, but still pretty impressive nonetheless.
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