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Monday – warm with sun and clouds. Up at the crack o sparrows ready for a long drive up to Lake Itasca – the source of the Mighty Mississippi. By the time we get up there it very cloudy so … Continue reading →

Saturday – warm, very humid and cloudy with thunderstorms. Lazy morning as usual. Then after lunch we take a stroll around the Stone Arch Bridge festival. It’s all going on right beneath our balcony so very handy. Mainly stalls selling … Continue reading →

Thursday – hot 79C and sunny. Up early to return the Hertzmobile. 35 minutes in the office getting my two free day vouchers accepted. Bloody marvellous they send me these vouchers as a reward. Delighted by them. Then they screw … Continue reading →

Monday – Grey and warm. Pick up Hertzmobile as we leave Chicago. Drive over to Iowa to explore Des Moines on our way up to Minneapolis. Iowa seems a lot like Idaho boring straight roads and nothing but farms and … Continue reading →

Friday – warm and sunny. Up and off down to the Science Museum, on the bus no less. As you would expect it has to have a superlative – biggest in the Western Hemisphere. Yes it is big. 4 floors … Continue reading →

Wednesday – warm, sun and cloud. Take a metro to Oak Street and then walk to Oak Street Beach. Have a pleasant 3 hour stroll down the Lake Shore path to the Art Museum. Use a membership card to get … Continue reading →

Monday – sunny and just a nice temperature. Catch the subway up to the canal. Amazed how clean and pleasant the subway was. Even had two guys playing music. Did a 90 minute Architectural Boat tour of the Chicago canals. … Continue reading →

Saturday – warm but overcast. Now we’ve found it we walk down to the visitors centre for a free – my I do like that word – guided walking tour of the Cultural Centre and the Downtown loop. Alas not … Continue reading →

Thursday – hot and sunny. Drive up from Indianapolis to Chicago. A pleasant 3 hour drive. Although our SatNav seemed to determined to take us a tour around the BP Refinery in Gary, Indiana. A depressing industrial area but they … Continue reading →

Tuesday – warm and sunny. Drive up to Indianapolis. Check in early and then go Downtown to explore. Really good tourist game in Indianapolis would be “hunt the visitors centre”. I’m dammed if we saw a single sign. Finally found … Continue reading →