10 On the Road to Paradise

Chapter 10 ON THE ROAD TO PARADISE Ohio is about two hundred fifty miles across. It would be a long day. Pep opened her book about circus animals. Coke fiddled with an empty Pez dispenser, which his mother had bought for him at the Museum of Pez Memorabilia back in California. It reminded him of home. "Where are we going now?" Coke asked glumly as they pulled out of the campground's parking lot. "The Pencil Sharpener Museum?" "How did you know there was a pencil sharpener museum in Ohio?" asked Mrs. McDonald. "It was a lucky guess," Coke said, slipping the Pez dispenser into his back pocket. "Well, I have good news for you," Mrs. McDonald announced. "We are not going to the Pencil Sharpener Museum. And we are not going to

第十章在通往天堂的路上俄亥俄州大约有250英里宽。 这将是漫长的一天。佩普打开了她关于马戏团动物的书。 可口可乐摆弄着一个空的Pez糖果盒，那是他妈妈在加州的Pez纪念品博物馆给他买的。 这使他想起了家。“我们现在要去哪儿？”他们把车开出露营地的停车场时，科克闷闷不乐地问。 “卷笔刀博物馆？”“你怎么知道俄亥俄州有个卷笔刀博物馆？”麦克唐纳太太问。 “这是一个幸运的猜测，”可口可乐说着，把Pez糖果盒塞进了他的后口袋。 “好吧，我有个好消息要告诉你，”麦克唐纳太太宣布。 “我们不去卷笔刀博物馆。 我们也不会这么做

the Paperweight Museum, or the National Construction Equipment Museum, or the Merry-Go- Round Museum, or the Bicycle Museum of America, or the Annie Oakley museum, or even the Cardboard Boat Museum. Personally, I would love to visit all those wonderful Ohio landmarks." "So where are we going?" Pep asked. "Today we're going someplace just for you," Dr. McDonald told the kids. "We're going to Cedar Point!" "Cedar Point?" Pep asked. "What kind of museum is that?" Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). Click Get Directions. In the A box, type Paulding OH. In the B box, type Toledo OH. Click Get Directions. "It sounds like the name of a mental institution," Coke remarked. "Cedar Point happens to be the greatest amusement park in the world!" Dr. McDonald

镇纸博物馆、国家建筑设备博物馆、旋转木马博物馆、美国自行车博物馆、安妮·奥克利博物馆，甚至还有纸板船博物馆。 就我个人而言，我很想参观所有美丽的俄亥俄州地标。” “那我们要去哪儿？”Pep问道。 “今天我们要去一个专为你准备的地方。” 麦克唐纳告诉孩子们。“我们要去杉点！”“杉点乐园?”Pep问道。 “这是什么博物馆？”进入谷歌Maps （http://maps.google.com/）。 点击“获取路线”。在A框中，输入保定OH。 在B框中，输入托莱多。 点击“获取路线”。“这听起来像精神病院的名字，”科克说。 “雪松点恰好是世界上最大的游乐园！”博士。 麦当劳

replied, grinning broadly. "And it's in Sandusky, Ohio!" "Really?" Pep screamed, jumping out of her seat to wrap her arms around her parents. "I love you!" There are great amusement parks in California, of course. Six Flags. Sea World. Disneyland. But Sandusky, Ohio, is almost sacred ground for roller- coaster fanatics around the world. Its first coaster was built back in 1892. Now Cedar Point is filled with them, and they are among the tallest and fastest in the world. Both of the twins loved thrill rides, the scarier the better. Dr. McDonald popped a piece of gum into his mouth and an AC/DC disc into the CD player. It always amazed him that one of his favorite rock bands of his youth was also loved by his children. "Turn it up!" Coke shouted over the music. He liked his music loud. The louder the better. Dr. McDonald followed the local roads until he reached Route 24 East, which he stayed on for a long fifty-five miles. By that time, stomachs had started growling and it was decided unanimously to

笑着回答。 “而且是在俄亥俄州的桑达斯基！”“真的吗?”佩普尖叫着，从座位上跳起来，抱住她的父母。 “我爱你！”当然，加州有很多很棒的游乐园。 六旗。海洋世界。迪士尼乐园。 但俄亥俄州的桑达斯基几乎是全世界过山车狂热者的圣地。 它的第一个过山车建于1892年。 现在，雪松点到处都是它们，它们是世界上最高和最快的。 这对双胞胎都喜欢惊险刺激的游乐设施，越恐怖越好。 麦克唐纳医生把一块口香糖塞进嘴里，把一张AC/DC光盘塞进CD播放机。 令他惊讶的是，他年轻时最喜欢的摇滚乐队之一也受到了他的孩子们的喜爱。 “开大点声！”科克在音乐声中喊道。 他喜欢把音乐放大声。声音越大越好。 麦克唐纳博士沿着当地的道路一直走到24号东公路，他在这条路上走了55英里。 到那时，肚子已经开始咕咕叫了，大家一致决定

stop off for lunch well before they got to Cedar Point. It's not a good idea to ride a roller coaster on a full stomach. Dr. McDonald pulled off the road at Toledo, where he saw a truck advertising a hot dog restaurant called Tony Packo's. BITE THE BEST, it said on the side of the truck. He couldn't resist. "Holy Toledo!" Coke said as they walked into Tony Packo's. The walls of the restaurant were covered with plaques, each one bearing a hot dog bun that had been autographed by a famous person. Jerry Seinfeld. George W. Bush. Bing Crosby. Patti LaBelle. Clint Black. There were five hundred of

在他们到达雪松点之前就停下来吃午饭了。 吃饱了坐过山车不是个好主意。 麦克唐纳医生把车停在托莱多（Toledo）的公路上，在那里他看到一辆卡车在为一家名叫托尼·帕克（Tony Packo）的热狗店做广告。 “吃最好的，”卡车侧面写着。 他无法抗拒。“圣托莱多!”当他们走进托尼·帕克餐厅时，可口可乐说。 餐厅的墙上挂满了牌匾，每个牌匾上都有一个热狗面包，上面有一位名人的签名。 杰瑞·宋飞。乔治·w·布什。 Bing Crosby。帕蒂拉贝尔。 克林特黑色。有500个

them. "This place is like a hot dog bun museum!" Mrs. McDonald said, reaching for her camera. Tony Packo's would be perfect for Amazing but True. They found an empty table and the waitress, an older woman, came over. "What'll it be, folks?" she asked. "Hot dogs!" all four replied. "Good choice." The kids walked around examining the autographed buns on the wall, but it wasn't long before their hot dogs arrived, so they rushed back to their table. Coke was about to bite into his hot dog when he decided to put some ketchup on it. As he opened up the bun, this is what he saw burned into it: "Oh no," he said to himself. He quickly scanned the restaurant, then glanced over at the other buns on the table. Nobody else's bun had weird symbols burned into it. Without saying a word, Coke showed the bun to

他们。“这地方就像个热狗面包博物馆！”麦克唐纳太太说着，伸手去拿她的照相机。 托尼·帕克的《惊为天人》很适合。 他们找到了一张空桌子，一位年长的女服务员走了过来。 “要吃什么，伙计们？”她问。 “热狗！”四个人都回答。 “不错的选择。”孩子们围着墙上签名的小圆面包转了一圈，但没过多久他们的热狗就送到了，所以他们赶紧回到了自己的桌子上。 可乐正要咬他的热狗时，他决定在上面涂点番茄酱。 当他打开小圆面包时，他看到了下面这段文字：“哦，不，”他自言自语道。 他迅速扫视了一下餐厅，又扫了一眼桌上的其他小圆面包。 没人的发髻上有奇怪的符号。 可乐二话没说，把面包拿给他看

his sister. She raised her eyebrows. "Memorize it," Pep whispered in his ear. "I already did." The cipher committed to memory, Coke doused the dog with ketchup and destroyed the evidence, by eating it. Back on the road to Cedar Point after lunch, the twins huddled together in the back of the RV as Coke wrote down the symbols he had seen on his hot dog bun. "It's indecipherable!" he whispered. "Every cipher is decipherable," Pep whispered back. "That's why they're called ciphers. And this one, actually, is easily decipherable. It uses the Ogham alphabet." "The what?!" "It was a medieval alphabet used in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales," she said, as she began writing it out. "How can you possibly know that?" Coke asked.

他的妹妹。她扬起眉毛。 “记住它，”佩普在他耳边低语。 “我已经说过了。”把密码记在记忆里，可口可乐把番茄酱浇在狗身上，然后吃掉了证据。 午饭后回到去雪松点的路上，这对双胞胎挤在房车的后面，可口可乐写下了他在热狗面包上看到的符号。 “看不懂！”他低声说。 “每个密码都可以破译，”佩普小声回答。 “这就是为什么它们被称为密码。 而这个，实际上，很容易解读。 它使用奥格姆字母表。” “什么? !”“这是爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士使用的一种中世纪字母，”她一边说一边开始写。 “你怎么可能知道呢？”可口可乐问道。