Blogs from Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America - page 88

We drove all night from Minnesota and we are finally here in Rockford, IL at 5 am. Chad, Chris' brother was in shock when we rang the doorbell. We spend a nice relaxing day with Chad, Kerryne and his family. There is Jade, Trevor and Tyler (the baby). ... read more

It's been another busy few days for Russ and I. We only ended up staying in Kansas City the night as we couldn't really find much to do. We were there on Monday and everything seemed to be closed so we decided to push on. We spent the afternoon driving to St. Louis where we spent the night in a Walmart carpark. We followed a maze of signs to get to this one RV park but at $50 night we thought we'd make do with a freebie at Walmart. Yesterday was spent at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. We paid the $10 each to take the tram to the top of the arch, now, when I say tram I really mean pod like thing. We didn't really know what to expect and it sort of ... read more

Greetings from the Windy City - Chicago! Brrrr, it's 5 degrees today, wet AND windy, what a treat! I last wrote from Texas, where we had our flip flops on, and could stroll the river bank with a cold drink in hand. That's not the case here in Chicago! Back in San Antonio and we knew we had to visit the Alamo, as it's their major attraction. I didn't know much about the place, but apparently it's where a few hundred Americans held off a few thousand Mexicans in some battle, years ago. I guess America does war a little differently now........! I wanted to see the Alamo itself, because it's set in a nice parkland area, but first of all, we went and saw the IMAX film, explaining what happened at the battle. IMAX films ... read more

October 22, 2006 was a very special day in my life. I ran my very first marathon. It was a rainy, windy and freezing Sunday morning. 5:30 am, got to get up! Got to get up, can't be late 5:45 am, Why is J still sleeping?? Wake up!! 6:00 am, On the way to Grant Park 7:00 am, Checked gear....got in line for porta-potty, drank some more water, got in line for porta potty again and again..... 8:00 am, Oh the race started already? Where is the starting line?? Can't see it all the way from the back! 8:20 am, Finally crossed the starting line after 20 minutes of shuffling..... Let's go! Mile 1-5 This was so much fun.... i felt good and strong.... " Go runners", people cheered. Incredible crowd, energy was high... " Slow ... read more

Hi Everyone, Sorry not been on the blog for a while, not had easy internet access but will be updating them all over next few days. Just found all our messages as well so thanks to all sending them, it is nice to hear from you. Will check them more often now as didn,t realise anyone was sending us any! Well arrived in Chicago after a slight flight delay which was caused (to our surprise) by snow!! It wasn't actually snowing when we arrived but was cold and of course very windy. Hotel was really easy to find as we had brilliant directions and it was straight on the train line from the airport. Great B&B, great room and little kitchen area, quite homely really. On our first night we met a couple from Canada and ... read more