WE HAVE SURVIVED our first day on the Mother Road!! But, before we started our journey on Route 66 we had to do a couple more things in Chicago. First we had to go back out to O'Hare International Airport to drop off the transponder, eTag thingy that Bernie was convinced we had to have when we picked the car up on Sunday afternoon. It's to pay the tolls on the tollways. On Sunday, the woman who processed our car hire pick-up convinced Bernie that we would need it to get around Chicago but, because we only drove to Ray's and then caught the train for two days, we really did not need it. With 20/20 hindsight we wouldn't have taken it on Sunday. Because it adds around US$40/week to our car hire we really needed
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