great? first once?

I remember Grandand & Carolyn came to visit me while I was in school in Indiana. They brought a relative who I thought was a great aunt somehow, who I had either never met, or had not seen in years. Or maybe she had driven there to meet us, I'm not sure. I just looked at a chart explaining relations and now I think she is my first cousin once removed. Grandad always liked to have a good meal and he seemed to know about where to go for that even when they were travelling. That doesn't seem too much out of the ordinary now because one can do an internet search and look at various ratings sites, but I wonder how he did it back in 1988. I happen to know it was 1988 and April 24th, 1988 in fact, because it's noted on the back of some photos my cousin once removed sent to me a few weeks later. But how did Grandad know that one of the best places to eat near my school was Turkey Run Inn when he lived hundreds of miles away. Not only was there no world wide web to check then, but Grandad once proclaimed, proudly I would say, when he learned I was familiar with computers and had a job in the computer lab at school, that, he "wouldn't know a computer from a bale of hay." He said it was a nice place so I tried to dress so I looked somewhat "presentable" in my favorite threadbare blue wool sweater, thrift shop khakis and brown leather shoes I had happily received as a gift from my girlfriend when it turned out they fit me even better than they'd fit her. It had probably been too long since my last haircut and I may have been accused of looking like a "portable brush heap," but it was good enough for the semi-fancy Turkey Run Inn. I think the dinner we had was indeed good and I may even have had some wine, which would have been illegal at the time. I have various memories of taking a walk along Turkey Run and Sugar Creek, walking over a covered bridge, posing for some photos, walking too far to find the parked car, riding back to school, and receiving an invitation to visit my cousin once removed in a neighboring city.