Residence Inn By Marriott Chicago Downtown River North

... long trip. Most of them were passing through as part of a longer journey, on their way to or from another far-away land. We hiked Volcan Baru with a solo Swedish hiker who latched on to other backpackers and seemingly traveled wherever the wind blew, and 3 Israeli 20-somethings who were traveling for 10 months, or "until we run out of money". For me, this was an introduction to this type of travel, and seeing people doing it first-hand made me realize the ...

... our same lifestyle, Nathan, Sam and I are considering living together. After crunching the numbers, it really just makes sense to do the whole roommate thing. Definitely feels like I am taking a step back. I look at my other friends...buying nice houses, having babies, being responsible...and here I am, potentially going to live in a shoe box with 2 gay men. Who's grown up now?<br><br>So, yes..this trip comes at a great ...

... pay our US$55 to go up the tower, then wait 20 minutes to catch a lift to the 103rd floor. Mind you, it was worth it. The views are fantastic in every direction. Loads of other tourists up there, especially being a Saturday and the weather was uncharacteristically warm and sunny. We had heard that Chicago would be cold and windy, but we were pretty warm all day until 4pm.<br>Anyway on the viewing deck of the Sears Tower they have installed some glass sticky-outy bits that you can (queue up ...

... was upside down several meters away!! It was full of stuff and pegged to the ground by 10 pegs! It really is windy. Today we are spending the day just chilling and catching up on the blogging and emailing that we have neglected. Tomorrow we hope to give our car a service and keep old Dusty in tip top shape. After that we are still unsure, until next time.<br><br>Love and Peace to you all, the wind blown, Bek and Jesse Train<br><br>

Sunday 6th. <br><br>Today Margarita will be leaving us. We all accompany her to the airport, Midway, which is much closer than O'Hare. On the way back we pass through Chinatown, which is, well, Chinatown. <br><br>This afternoon we feel Michael needs a rest, so we elect to visit a museum. We have so many choices, but in the end we choose The Field Museum of ...

... and Debbie and I peddling. After that exhausting hour we checked out some stores for gifts, and then headed back to our hotel. We rented a movie in the room and had a early night. Okay we are heading out of our room in Cleveland, Ohio now. Have not done anything here except swim, eat and sleep. I will do one more blog before getting home tomorrow. Thank you everyone for following us on our trip. Love you all.

Yesterday no one was really feeling too well, so we had a lazy down day. We made the decision to stay 1 more night. We got some sun by the pool, and had a lovely dinner on Navy Pier..steak and pot roast YUM :) We got to bed early so we were well rested for a full day of sightseeing!

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After that village called Put-in-Bay,Chicago was something totally different and way more interesting.I had luck with weather while I was there (it was unusualy hot for begining of October) but also with people I've met there.It wasn't smooth on begining,my host got sick so I ended up with staying at Adam's place (cool teacher and CS member).City itself was pretty alive cos of the 30th marathon that was during my stay there.Since it was so hot ...

In two weeks everything fell into place. I had my plane tickets, visa, and a new home waiting for me. I said goodbye to my family (there are five us: ...mom, dad, me, ian, andrew and now a new bro. who came to live with us from Korea, john). I love my family... so in a way it's hard to say goodbye knowing it won't be hello again till May, but the other side of me is ready to spread my adventuras wings and fly away to the unknown. I will be back ...