Overnight bus journeys are not the way forward - especially not when you have a two hour delay in Detriot in the middle of the night! Anyway....we made it to Chicago and arrived at our hostel - I don't think there are words to describe it! On the plus side, it was clean(ish) and two blocks from the subway but on the down side you couldn't lock the door to your room, there were no lockers to keep your stuff, the showers were on a different floor and we had some mad woman in our room who held a conversation with herself all night long! Happy days. So, we have spent as much time as possible outside of the buggy hostel and in hot and humid Chicago. We have been on a boat tour up the
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