Fairfield Inn By Marriott Hammond

After leaving the HD Museum in Milwaukee, it only took us a little over an hour to reach Chicago. The thing that bugged us on this stretch of road was that we needed to stop at many toll roads just to get us through I-90 and I-94. We thought they should name a road after us for all the tolls we paid. We stopped at Tank Noodle in Chinatown after getting this recommendation from Bryan ...

... t impressed at all! I have to say Chicago so far is doubly wow!

Magnificent Mile;-





Old Water Tower Building;-



Being 100 ...

So I am taking care of last minute packing, laundry, etc. today. I'm also baking some banana-cinnamon-chocolate bread to bring to Abby (it turned out really well!), per mom's request to bring Ab something home-baked. I actually think I will be ok with suitcase space, considering I have to fit all I will need for 3 weeks in a carry-on and backpack. I'm so thankful my friend Gina is willing to wake up early and give up her Thursday morning to drive me ...

... ciels de 1930 à aujourd'hui. Chicago a une population de 2 896 016 habitants. Elle est située le long des berges du lac Michigan et de la rivière Chicago. Étant donné sa situation, on y construit des gratte-ciels. Au début, ces derniers ne possédaient que quatre ou cinq étages, les édifices étaient construits en pierres et les gens craignaient qu'ils s'écroulent. L'arrivée de l'acier dans la construction a permis de construire des édifices beaucoup plus hauts ...

... three solid weeks. I was missing the comfort and security of my own personal nest and a regular routine, and missing Chris a bunch, wanting him back from Virginia and his life on the road. I offered to turn right around and come home if they could fly me business class, but no go. So I opted for three nights there, and knew I would make the best of it and enjoy it as much as my weary ...

... the same plan of beating the hordes at the Shedd Aquarium - managed reasonably well and had a look around at all the fishys :) Beluga whales are pretty cool, watched the dolphin display (with about 100,000 kids). Got out of there and back to Michigan Ave to try the MCA again - was open today and free! - although 2 floors were closed for installation so there was only one real floor, some good photographicart ...

After a flying with Virgin Atlantic from heathrow we had to connect here a Ohare to get to Omaha.

Wow the first experience of a delayed connecting flight due to weather conditions and AAirlines not flying we set here for hours waiting for the connection flight.

After a 30 - 40 minuiete walk accross from the international ...

Chicago remains cold and quite as I await the commencement of my travels in Africa tomorrow. Kenya is certainly not as quite as I had hoped it might be by this time. Yet, the insecurity which accompanies me as a I prepare to take off adds a sense of urgency if not purpose to my visit. I cannot help but wonder if I am being too proud in my insistence on leaving. I do not believe so. Instead, I have decided to move forward with my travel plans in ...

... whether I could stay here or not, but life (as mentioned above) has a curious and at times unfair way of pointing out where we're needed most. So due to circumstances way beyond my control home is where I'm needed in this moment. I hope you will forgive me for being so vague about the events that took place recently. One day I will share those moments, but today is not that day.

... to sit and listen to the musicians for a while, and think about the role of music in the art community. The musicians were from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, and their music was a haunting combination of a reed flute, banjo, drum, and guitar. I had to buy a CD. Aaron had enough of the art fair, so I pulled myself away from the music and returned to the apartment. We discussed our observations and took some notes and decided our next stop would be to the Blues Fest in Grant Park to ...