The Bog is a local tavern and bar, it is reputed to have the best hamburgers for miles around, and this is true. They also have salads and turkey sandwiches, Maria and I love to go to the Bog on nasty nights like this one, when it is snowing and sleeting and the temperature is plunging.

The Bog is a dark and cozy place, some of my friends find it a little intimidating – bikers love the bog and so do some of the big men in trucks. Maria and I have never found it uncomfortable to be in the bog, we always feel welcome there, and I love the dark den-like feeling of the place, especially on awful nights like this when we come to find the wood stove roaring and somebody always shooting some pool.

It’s the perfect cold and rainy night place, a roadhouse really, there is a Bog in just about every town in America.