We woke up early to the sound of loud country music, but this enabled us to head to Chicago to make the most of our time in the Windy City. Although it hadn't rained that night while camping, it had been really cold and there was loud country music playing from another tent site, both of which made sleeping quite difficult. Anyway, in the morning, we arrived at our motel called "Colony Motel." Since it was a Sunday, the trains only ran every two hours into the city. Josh and I headed to 24 hour restaurant called Tony's during our wait for the train. It had great food and was really inexpensive. We ended up having to run for the train, which was 10 mins late. It was a double decker train and was absolutely packed due to the blackhawks' game. Chicago reminded us a lot of NYC and it has become my favorite place we have been to so far on the trip. We decided to start by just exploring the streets and stumbled upon the filming set for "Divergent," a movie coming out in 2014. We decided to walk to the waterfront and found that there was a free Blues festival going on. It was so nice to just sit on the grass and relax while listening to the fantastic music. It began to get quite chilly so we moved on to get dinner. After dinner we went for another short wander around the festival before heading back to the train station.
Day 10- Chicago-
That day was my favorite thus far. We started off getting breakfast at Tony's and I had delicious chocolate chip pancakes, while Josh had an eggs benedict on a giant croissant. We then packed up our room and drove into Chicago, finding incredibly cheap parking for $2. We made our way through the city center and on our way to the art institute, stumbled upon a literary fest, where I bought an awesome map of PA from 1911. It also had loads of awesome books for really cheap and neat retro posters from the 40's and 50's. We finally made it though the festival, and went to art museum, which was amazing. Josh puts it at the second best art museum he has ever been to, just behind the MOMA. They had incredible collections, but it was very disappointing to find the Nighthawks had been loaned out to a museum in NYC; that was the piece Josh was most excited to see! Afterwards we drove over the the free zoo, which was really well put together for a free zoo. I was able to see my favorite animal, the slow loris, along with bushbabies, and the cutest sleeping sloth. Josh was excited to see the gorillas, which were all asleep except the silverback who was picking his nose and eating the boogers. We could barely control ourselves with how funny he was. It was really gross but hysterical how he examined every one before eating it. The zoo closed at 6pm, so we then found a pizza place to stop for dinner, so Josh could have a Chicago stuffed deep-dish pizza. Then I took Josh to DQ so he would have his first DQ hot fudge Sunday. We finally headed off to Milwaukee, which only took about 2 hours.
Day 11- Milwaukee-
First, let me say driving in Milwaukee really sucks. Moving on, we got to sleep in a bit today at the hotel, which was really nice. The past two nights have been a wonderful break from camping. I have to make the most of sleeping in a real bed and having a TV tonight, because apparently we are camping for the next week and a half... YAY! However, I am really excited for all of the National Parks, so I guess I can suck it up! Anyway, we started today by getting breakfast at a place called troop cafe, which is actually a non-profit organization that only started up a month ago. Josh and I loved it there! You can find them on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TroopCafeMKE?ref=ts&fref=ts. Afterwards we visited the Miller Brewery, which was really interesting! We were able to take a free tour too see the different stages of the brewing process. At the end we were each able to have 2 samples of beer. I gave mine to Josh, I am not much of a beer person, so I just made the most of the free lemonade. We then made our way to the lake front and took a walk along the beach before going to a very cool, but hipstery pizza place called Classic Slice Pizza. I was finally able to have my first slice of pizza in the U.S. in ages! Every pizza place I have visited has animal rennet in the cheese and doesn't offer any vegan options. At this place they had loads of vegan options! I had a slice of delicious plain vegan pizza and Josh had a fantastic vegan pesto pizza. After filling up on great pizza, we went bowling at this underground bowling ally. Not long after we started our first game we were swarmed by small children who wouldn't leave us alone, but they were very cute and sweet. We made our way back to the hotel to relax for the evening before our long day of driving tomorrow, we are looking at about 9 hours!
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| My awesome map of PA from 1911 |
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| Miller Brewery |
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| Lake Michigan |
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