Monday, May 3, 2010
Day 1: In the beginning
So far so good. Last night we encountered our first round of challenges. Of course when you leave packing to the last night you're asking for trouble. Pedal removal was more difficult than Tim expected and holding onto car keys wasn't working for Michael. Each bike and trailer had to be taken apart and placed in cardboard boxes for cheap transport ($5). We finally got to sleep around 2:30am and woke up a hour later to hit the road with a McDonald's breakfast.
Fortunately, there were no complications at the station. As you can imagine we slept most of the way to our first stop in Chicago. We had about 5 hours of layover till our next train so we put our carry-ons in a locker and walked around downtown. Since it was Tim's first time in Chi-Town we went to Michigan Ave., Buckingham Fountain, and up along Lakeshore drive. It was a gorgeous day as you can see by the pictures below.
We made it back to Union Station in time for our next trip. We have all day tomorrow and most of Wed. on this train so we'll have a lot of time to catch up on sleep. If only our attendant would stop repeating herself over the PA system. Could be a long ride tomorrow.
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Good luck dude! Sorry I was out of the office last Friday when you called. Hope it's a great time! See you in August!
ReplyDeleteBernie
Its nice to have a pic of u boys at the start of the trip to be measuring how long your beards get! :-)
ReplyDeleteMegan
can't believe you didn't let me know you were in chicago for a little bit! You know i would've set you up real nicely! Let me know when you get around Illinois area and I'll see if I can make a trek (by car - i'm not crazy) to see you guys.
ReplyDeleteSorry dude we were only there for like 5 hours anyways. We travel through the southern tip of Illinois probably during the end of June. We'll let you know, it'd be great to meet up!
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