Hotels in Chicago - Prices and Reviews

Chicago - stupendous, exhilarating, nerve wracking. I could see brick row houses, identical except for dormer décor, old church spires, fire escapes with flowering plants from the expressway, as I zoomed into downtown. Missing a couple of street turns, I nonetheless lucked into finding Navy Pier and got into a parking garage. The skyscrapers soa...

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 of grace
This is England
Good bye Lenin
Zhou Yu's t...

Wow. What a start. Chicago has been fantastic. One of our favourite cities anywhere. The flight was fine as flights go. Uneventful except for a malfunctioning entertainment system that reset whatever you were watching literally every 3 minutes. Frustrating doesn't begin to describe it. O'hare airport is huge. It took us 21 minutes (of course I w...

We drove to Chicago on Tuesday, May 5th (cinco de mayo) and visited with Emily!

Well at long last we are on our travels. We left Port Macquarie on the 21/04/08 and flew to Sydney to Catch our international flight. The flight from Sydney to San Francisco was good, well as good as 13 hours in a plane can be. But we arrived in San Francisco 1030 am got threw customs etc and jump on the B.A.R.T train for a half hour ride into t...

The budget that I received for this trip was $3,500, the student budget. This is what everything costed in Euros . . . 1. Combined Flight: 1069,55E 2. Cabs to and from airports: 30,00E 3. Hostel (all together): 56,00E 4. Breakfast: FREE! at the hostel 5. Museum Visit (w/Mary!): 5,50E 6. Concert (w/Mary!): 119,00E 7. Total car rental: 96,00E 8. G...

Ever have one of those moments where an answer to a question is given to you nearly as instantly as you think it? Like an epiphany, only it's not that because it's not a sudden realization, but literally the answer right in front of you - in writing or told to you by someone else. That happened to me more than once this past week and things feel...

Welcome to my soon-to-be-enormous travel blog. We're on our way to Montreal! Not much to report so far, but we're hitting the road for Montreal tonight and tomorrow will yield not only stories but also a fictional entry from the future of my world travels. Please stay tuned.

I drove to Chicago in the late morning with my parents and Will. I slept for a good portion of the trip because I had been out pretty late the night before. When we got to the airport and had checked all my luggage, my mother and I went to the bathroom. When we came out Cindy was waiting with Will and my dad. My parents met Cindy for the...

After dropping mom and dad off at the airport, we had some time to ourselves. The Murphy's met us for lunch in Grand Rapids at the Big Boy, which is the boys' newest favorite place to eat. Back in Chicago, we went over the Field Musuem. It is the premier natural history museum in my mind. We were there for the King Tut exhibit. I had been to the...