Maybe do a web search on "travelling light"? One thing I do, I use the synthetic (not cotten) underware, sox, and long sleeve shirts. Wear 1 set, pack 1 set. Every night, hand wash the set you wore, wrap a towel around them as tight as you can to get the water out, then hang overnight to dry. Sometimes you might need to use a little bit of a hair dryer to finish them in the morning. You can even get by with just 1 set, but I like the spare. Also, you can get the pants that have zippers so they can become shorts, these are usually a light nylon, and can be rolled into a very tiny space, so then you can get the heavy grimmy leathers off when you get to a motel.

As for food, there are lots of fancy places up that way, but in the next town over, for the 30 years I lived in that area, there was a place called the "Hilltop Steakhouse" which has great steaks at decent prices, and a thing called lobster pie. They put the meat of a lobster in a dish, cover with breadcrumps and hot butter. Its not only a lazy man's way to eat it, it is really excellent. The place is huge and seats a million people, and everyone knows about it, so anyone can diret you to it.

Kurt