So far, so okay! Made it to Potsdam in just 6 hours - about 40 minutes quicker than MapQuest estimated, and honestly, I was not flying down the road.
Checked in to the very nice Clarkson Inn, an historic old hotel that's 'right downtown', to quote Tim Wattley from Seinfeld. Nice large room, very very clean, and nice amenities, including a full ice bucket, two bottles of water, and a couple of bags of chips.
Unpacked and caught up on the emails from today, then off to dinner at The Cactus Grill. Short three block walk through the edge of the business district. Weather was nice, and I spotted a few other places that might be dinner tomorrow night, three pizza places all within one block of each other, and a nice looking pub, Maxfield's. We'll see.
So, the Cactus Grill, not a bad spot, as you'd expect for a Tuesday night, pretty empty, the wait staff was pleasant, and the food was pretty good as well.

Sat down, ordered a Dos Equis Amber (they had it, my first choice!) and got a nice basket of chips to go with it:

Now those are some colorful chips! All pretty good, but they were desperately calling for a sprinkle of salt, eaten dry, they had the mouth feel of good, heavy duty, cardboard. Fortunately, they came with a side of freshly made pico de gallo, below:

Very nice, lots of onions in it, and a nice kick, from what I think were diced jalapenos. This stuff made the chips edible.
Dinner, was a beef Chimichanga, which was huge, and filled with very nicely seasoned shredded beef and a little too much melted cheese. I know, how can you have too much cheese? Well, turns out you can when it's heavy, gloppy, melted orange stuff! Overall though, it was a decent Chimi, and for one of those just spotted it places, a good meal to start the trip.

More to follow!