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Chicago Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chicago, United States
Sweet Home Chicago
Had a bit of a mission to get to the airport this morning for our Spirit Airlines flight to Chicago. Hostel shuttle bus to station, two trains to airport then another shuttle bus to our terminal. Took quite a bit of time, but was much cheaper than getting ...
The windy city filled with food
... a treasure trove of old jewellery, clothes and furniture as well as a room filled with young modern designers. A walk down Chicago's famous Magnificent Mile provided us with all the shopping we could handle, from big department stores to high end brands. ...
My Favorites Movies
Touching the Void Turtles can fly Tsotsi God grew tired of us The eel Tell no one (ne le dis a personne) de battre mon coeur s'est arrete (the beat that my heart skipped) read my lips (sur ses levres) eat drink man woman Himalaya Nobody knows Maria full ...
Prepping for the Trip
Greetings. THIS IS IT. I've waited to do this for 10 years. When this is done, I'll have come up with a new set of dreams - because I will have done everything I've wanted to do. %) I've managed to pack everything into the carry ...
Take me to the ballpark
... or may not know, and I for one did not, the film Ferris Bewler's Day Off included a trip to Wrigley Field - home of the Chicago Cubs. And as luck would have it, the Cubs v Minnesoata game was also 'Save Ferris' day, complete with t-shirts and scoreboard ...
Drinks on Top of the World
... ;m not one to wait in a line for my dinner, so Michael suggests an even better choice, Gino’s East, supposedly where Chicago Pizza originated. Just our luck, there is a queue at this place too. It’s hopeless! Even the Spanish tapas restaurant ...
Permission to go to China: Granted
Took me a while to actually write this up, but last Wednesday, my sister and I went up to Chicago to get my Chinese visa. I'm really lucky because there are only five Chinese consulates in the whole US, and one of them is just 3.5 hours away. We took the ...
6 days out
I just saw that I've had some visitors to this already...sorry for the non-action thus far. I promise that one week from now, I'll start filling this up with good stuff. Despite the grenade bombings and sit-in protests and popular opinion that ...
Adios Chicago!!!
Ok, tomorrow I am going to Cuernavaca Morelos, A.K.A. "The City of Eternal Spring". Cuernavaca is the capital of Morelos,a state that is located about 45 minutes south of Mexico ...
Old meets New - Chicago
... didn't allow us to take any photos - but a very enjoyable little trip. Gary & I have fond memories of Chicago from a trip, B.C. (before children)... but with the weather cold, the parking for a RV non existent, (and the ...
The pretty city is mighty windy
... to take a closer look at the different sites before deciding I was very hungry - time for some gastro-tourism. I couldn't leave Chicago without trying their culinary contribution to the world - deep-dish pizza - like a regular pizza only with so many ...
The Windy City!
Arrived safely in Chicago last night, despite the little man in front of me reclining his seat so far back that the limited legroom I had was pushed to the ultimate limit, leaving my legs looking like chicken wings as they struggled for air! To top it off ...
Feeding the Jew in Chica-goo
... with Wendy. We are the closest in age (and sex) to anyone I have stayed with and I felt wonderfully at ease here in Chicago. But I did seem to be feeling really run down by the end of my time here. I had been completely on the go since Sturgis some ...
Chicago
... we met in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. It was so lovely to see her again, she is from Poland and has been living in Chicago for 8 years and has recently turned professional beach volleyball player (she is taller than me!). Later that afternoon we scored free ...
Saturday in Chicago
... it really was city like, the place that seemed most "city" to us since arriving in the US. Shortly after crossing over the Chicago River we moved off Michigan Ave into park area and continued our walk. We went past The Bean (officially Cloud Gate), a ...
Got my visa
Our admin assistant who was helping me arrange this trip had been really worried that my visa wasn't going to make it (especially since Thanksgiving was this week). She had had a bad experience trying to get a Niger visa for my colleague during the ...
Sayonara Japan (Farewell Japan)
Well Kids I guess this will be my last blog entry and I am really sad that I will be leaving Tokyo an amazing place but i guess it was worth it cause I had an amazing time and I would not change it for the world! This will be my shortest Blog since ...
All Roads Lead Thankfully and Safely Home.
... a feeling of melancholy as we bid each other goodbye after such an amazing experience. An abrupt blast of bitterly cold fu&%ing Chicago weather brought me immediately out of my dreamy state as I wound my way through the outside taxi line and then waited ...
Chicago - Oh what a Night !!!!!!
... downtown Chicago Central Loop Hotel, it is so named due to it's location, it is located in the Loop (downtown core and in Chicago’s cultural , and business center) - thankfully it was not to far from all the nightclubs either - BONUS!. We did not ...
May 27, 2011
Chicago
... . Chicago has some iconic buildings, but I thought the best one was the Tribune Tower, which is the home of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. The building literally has pieces of famous monuments embedded in the walls, such as the Sydney Opera House and the ...
Day 14 - Chicago: The Art Insititute
Today is our last full day in Chicago and we decided to devote the entire day to going to The Art Institute. The art teacher at my high school had given me 4 free passes to The Art Institute before leaving and I had already given to one to my South Korean ...
Everything's up to Date in Kansas City
At 1:00 pm local time, and our own time for that matter, we find seats in the waiting area of Chicago O'Hare. They now have automated cleaning toilet seats. You push a button-- oops, it's not that hard, you wave your hand in front of a sensor-- and the ...
May 24, 2011
And So It Begins.......
And so it begins, but not without a tiny bit of drama. Upon check-in at ORD, our very lovely agent informed us that our arrival time in LAX did not provide sufficient time to transfer to our flight to MEL. So, she was able to arrange for us to get on ...
The Official
... to the star alliance lounge for some fantastic bloody marys!!! starting the trip off with a good start. however...i did lose the remote to mz camcorder ALREADY by leaving in chicago at the lounge...oh well...whatev.... and we were off to ...
G'bye U.S. ...
... got her travel-sized perfume taken away because it was a liquid. I was quite the rebel and got through without them finding three lip glosses. Yes, I am quite the wild child! We boarded the plane and bid adieu to the United States until December ...