Blogs from Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America - page 83

After a fond farewell to South America, we arrived in the USA to begin the next chapter of our travels. We flew via Miami (where we had to question whether we had really left Latin America) to Chicago. Our initial impressions of the country are (1) stores are huge and getting bigger. We visited a couple of Walmart and Target stores that were the size of towns in Scotland or Australia. (2) the people are huge and getting bigger.... monstrous portions of junk food are taking their toll. After getting over the moral dilemma we faced from having just left poverty stricken countries where people beg on the streets for food, I decided to get stuck in too.....! My waist line is heading North once again...... We spent a couple of days with the Murphys catching ... read more

Well I'm sitting at my kitchen table here in Chicago surrounded by boxes and text books and thinking 1 more week to go. I decided to create this "journal" to keep everyone informed on my life this summer. I'm pretty terrible at emails and keeping in contact so hopefully this will be the easiest way for people to see what I have been doing down in South America. That isn't to say of course that I don't want people to email, because I do. This will just replace mass email sent to everyone (plus it includes pictures if I ever figure out how to up load them). So feel free to check this page out occasionally or shoot me an email. I finally changed from my school address, my new address is: emily.hallberg@gmail.com not too ... read more

Only 10 more days of work. Our big trip is drawing near. We will leave our country on June 20th for Negril, Jamaica for our wedding on the 23rd. I am so excited to get the trip underway. ... read more

This time I was in Chicago visiting my friends M&A. I took a plane in on Saturday and stayed at a hotel out near O'Hare... which, by the way, is much less expensive than in the city... though it is a 45 min. CTA ride (@ $2/trip) to the Loop; extended stay hotels (e.g. Staybridge Suites) are relatively inexpensive out by the airport, though I stayed at the Doubletree with my hotel points). Sunday morning I took the CTA to the Roosevelt stop just south of the Loop. It was then a short walk to the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium (both next to each other and on the south side of Grant Park). The plan was to meet M&A around noon and go to to Shedd Aquarium. However, since this was Memorial Weekend, the line ... read more

03/05/07 - 06/05/07 Chicago After our relaxing break in the Amish country we were ready for the hustle and bustle of big city life. Especially were we ready for Chicago Blues. We checked into the House of Blues hotel in the heart of the action and dined in the their blues club restaurant that night to the fantastic sounds of a solo guitarist and then full on bottle-necking blues band - Awesome! The next morning we headed to the museum of contemporary photography to have a nose but the work was just too contemporary for our tastes so we skipped of quickly and headed up the Magnificent Mile to check out the shops and ogle some of Chicago’s archtitecture. Architecture sure is a buzz word in Chicago. It boasts a whole (what is the collective noun ... read more