Hyatt - Lisle

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 ...

Chicago is such a beautiful City!! It’s clean, modern, refreshing and vibrant. The people here are just as trendy and they are all very stylish, I am impressed ...

... fun to hear other people's stories about work and living situations, and it was great to hang out with my roommates outside of our busy daily lives here in Chicago.  We had an anti-racism workshop, which was very powerful.  We also talked about what poverty in neighborhoods looks like.  It was a wonderful time to relax, read, eat good food, and take walks around the Wisconsin countryside.  Oh and I saw the Mississippi River out the car window on our way there!  Then it ...

... hear me and so hung up after a short while of saying "who is this?". Fortunately, when I called straight back he worked out that it must be me and so, despite still not being able to hear me, gave me the door code and directions to the flat - which he said was unlocked - and said he would be there in fifteen minutes. I got in to the building OK and headed to the flat as instructed, settling on the sofa with a beer to await Andy's return. When he hadn't appeared ...

... so close to the University of Notre Dame. It had been getting dark on Saturday night as we went thru so we decided to go drive thru. With all the national attention for football the school gets I forgot that the school isn't actually that big. It is a nice campus, but I had built it up to be a lot more in my head. I ...

It is about 7:30 at night right now and I'm waiting in the airport for my plane to take off at 8:30pm. I should arrive in Germany at about 11:10am their time tomorrow. I am pretty excited because Jessica and I booked our tickets for the same flight today! I hope that we get to sit next to each other! I only have $3,500 to spend on my whole entire trip. I have already spent ...

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 ...

... time in history, GM's 'Renaissance Center' 70-odd storey HQ dominates this city, reminding you that despite one million residents having deserted Detroit over the past few decades, it remains the nation's car capital. The stay in Detroit was an interesting one, a stopover on the drive from Toronto to Chicago, emphasised by the excellent and at times moving Afro-American History museum reflecting on the city's ...

... some cheap clothes, read a dreadful book.

The El is cool - I like the idea of a 1st storey transport system.

I walked across town to a wonderful Indian restaurant in the most soaking deluge I have ever encountered (up until I met the monsoon in India many years later). It was friendly and the food was marvellous. If I remember the name I'll tell you - it is worth a visit if it is still there.

... for about 48 hours, most of which was spent chilling in the smoking cabin with some dude and his guitar, plus a girl who I was to stay with later on my journey ( see Montana chapter ), this part of travelling was as important as the places you were going, getting there was sometimes just as fun :) After stopping in Colorado for a bit, I went West to California and San Fransisco, before heading north up the stunning pacific coast to Seattle, Washington ...