Reply #63: We were coming straight off the interstate

[MountainLaurel]

And we knew that whatever the chain in question was, that it took dogs. (This was a couple years ago.) We were on our way to the Five Colleges area for a New Year's vacation, and we wanted to stop in Hartford because Mr. Laurel wanted to check out UConn's law school. We didn't realize it was across from the prison until we got lost looking for an open restaurant that wasn't a chain. (We ended up eating at a Quiznos.) Its location made me feel a lot better when we returned to find that my springer had ripped up a corner of carpet in a fit of pique at having been abandoned for all of 25 minutes.

We just moved to the far South, so it's unlikely that we'll be back up that way in a long while, but thank you for the offer. :hi: