B.L.U.E.S. Chicago

... us  back to San Francisco where we first started out and we said goodbye, Maureen going home to San Diego, and myself home to Chicago, and 4 inches of snow, good thing I left a pair of snow boots and a warm jacket in storage at the airport for my ...

I just had the most delightful banana tart and I'm blogging at 37,000 feet as we're en route to Chicago. International First Class is truly amazing. But why is it so amazing?   Exclusivity is certainly part of it, but there's something more to ...

... do something cheap for the evening. The christmas market was on the way and so we stopped by, enjoyed some Gluhwein (the Chicago'ans are completely unaware of this christmassy spiced drink and seem in complete excitement at it's revelation) and had a ...

... a refund even if the shirt was defective. Can you even imagine such a thing in the U.S.? SEX and VIOLENCE The Chicago franchise of the company that Melanie works for has a spectacular photography collection -- one of the earliest, broadest and ...

... Midway airport it was very easy to get to the downtown area of the city, often referred to as the Loop. The CTA (Chicago Transport Authority) Orange Line took me straight to the HI Chicago Youth Hostel for $1.50 in about 30 minutes. The hostel itself ...

Ahhh, only a few days before work ends and I return to the much more agreeable lifestyle of extended traveling. First stop will have me visiting my sister in Shanghai for three weeks. I know very little of this faraway land and culture, but I am excited ...

... round-the-world tickets by now. At the Bermuda airport the AA representative could not print our boarding passes for the Miami-Chicago-Anchorage flights (as these are part of another ticket). So we went to the customer service desk at Miami airport to ...

Every Journey Starts with One Step but my finished 37 hours later in my hotel room. I caught a flight from Chicago & then went down town to catch a bus to Rapid City. The Bus station made Bus Aras look posh :-) It was direct bus from Chicago to ...

... with the success of planning (this meal was a nightmare to find and book - You would be astonished at how many food/drink places in Chicago close over christmas compared to the UK which sees it as an opportunity to make loads of cash) and to spend a full ...

... week! We would have never been able to figure out the walking, buses, trains and underground in such a short time without him! Chicago is huge (over 3 million people), so after arriving at about 3pm on Saturday, Antonio quickly had us out and about to ...