Chicago!

Hello everyone, I'm still alive. I know that from my blog record, it doesn't seem that way, sorry. So tonight we are in Grays Lake, Illinois. We left Chicago late this morning, after perhaps the first full nights sleep of this trip. Chicago was AMAZING!! We got an entire day off ther which was wonderful  after our longest day yet.  115 miles from Edwardsburg, MI.  ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN!!!!  I can hardly believe it. Can you?  It was a gorgeous ride, full off things to.... ride by....  At one point, going through Gary Indiana ( que the Music Man)  a fighter jet passed 50 feet over my head. An air show was in progress, and he passed low over out rout just as i was trundling along.  It was so loud.  we finally got to Chicago at about mile 90, and still had  25 to go to get to out overnight location. We got to ride on a bike path right next to the lake for almost all of that, and there were tons of people out to spend the sunny afternoon at the beach.  It was kind of weird to be riding through so many people and such traffic. I was exhausted that night. I tried to explore down town, but I was so tired I kept falling asleep on the L train.  I collapsed onto my thermarest without even getting into PJs. 

Sunday was a whole different story.  We got the entire day completely to ourselves. We were originally scheduled to have a build day at Chicago, but that fell through, so we just got to enjoy ourselves.  And did I ever have fun.  I will post more on that later. Suffice to say, Mom, Dad, look for a postcard. 

Anyway, presentation time, gotta go. Love to all, and thanks again for making this possible. Its a complete BLAST!