Super 8 Motel - Franklin PK / O Hare / Chicago Franklin Park

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 ...

... an 11am service and no one meets after 11:30 - when we arrived in downtown. We plopped down in the grass at the park for lack of anything else to do. I cried for the frusteration of it all. Finally, we got up and went to a shaded table and decided to read through Ruth together outloud.
It didn't take long for a ruggid older man to walk up, notice our Bible and ask "Are you Christians? Could you spare some change ...

... s what I did too!



The following day, I awoke to a beautiful sunrise over the lake;-



A lot of folks go to the highest building in the City ...

... just minutes to find our next flight! They direct us to a door where we should wait for a shuttle bus to drive us to the other side of the airport, but the girl there does not know what to do with all of us since one of the flights is delayed until 3am and the other (mine) was only temporarily delayed because they were having mechanical problems with the plane... exactly what we all wanted to hear. So we waited in the doorway for a good 15 minutes ...

... happy in weeks. Maybe it was bad timing, maybe I learned what I needed to. I flew through Hawaii where I stayed for 12 days with the boy I'd met. Hawaii is one of those places people go on their honeymoons. I thought I'd like to live there for a year or two, probably because I have this crazy Jimmy Buffet lifestyle dream of living on an island, near the beach... I thought that dream would become a reality. It was discussed. Plans ...

... summer '06 when I led a birthright trip, the fifth time was in the winter of '06 for my friend's wedding and volunteering with Livnot, the sixth time was visiting friends in Tel Aviv and now is the 7th time....living there among Israelis and teaching English. I can't wait!

Ok, so I got everything planned. Search for Flight + Hotel Flight + Hotel $2,516 Your Trip - 1 Adult Change Flight Flight - 1 Round Trip Ticket - 1 Adult Sun, Mar 23 Depart: 09:10pm Arrive: 05:35pm next day Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Cologne/Bonn K.A.Airport (CGN) 1 Stop Flight 46 ...

... to the domestic departures.

we grab a sandwich and set waiting to be told that all flights to the midwest was delayed.
we nothing to do lots of bags and kit carrying we could go far.

Ohare is one of the most less entertaining airports in the world there nothing to do a few shops to buy candy and a few food places thats it

... I was a moron and thought the whole time that the flight left at 12:52pm. It was 12:15. We made it with seconds to spare, the last to board. Because of our tardiness we were forced to sit apart on the plane, with Laura up in the 3rd row and me in the very front. Everything seemed normal. As we sat at the gate, the Captain came over the loudspeaker and told us they were trying to get a runway to go down and it would be around 20 minutes ...

Finally home and recovering from my 40-hour, 4-flight travel marathon.  When I got home I had eaten six consecutive meals on airplanes.  I'm dusting off the crumbs from the frying pan while the fire gives me a hotfoot. It would take far too much time to write up a full recap of the past few weeks.  And as has been pointed out to me, I've been doing a pretty poor job of conveying a balanced picture of my experiences.  I'll summarize with just ...