Posted on August 3, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
When I headed out this morning, I figured that my first destination would be the highlight of the day: a guided tour of Wrigley Field.
As has happened to millions of other baseball fans over the years, I fell in love with the place when I visited it for the first time last season. The tour [...]
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Posted on August 2, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
CHICAGO – Yesterday was pretty crazy, but a lot of fun.
After arriving in Chicago, I went off in search of a three-day subway pass. You would think this would be easy to find in the city’s biggest train station, but there was no indication that passes were sold there.
So I walked a few blocks north [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
SAN MATEO, Calif. – It took a mighty long time, but I’ve finally made it to the Bay Area.
I last blogged when the train left Colfax. Soon after that, we were given permission by Union Pacific to divert onto a different track and pass the freight train that had been delaying us so much.
We ended [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
DEERFIELD, Ill. – What a day this was.
I covered a lot of ground, from the Magnicficent Mile to Soldier Field and a lot of Millenium Park in between.
Once again, I took a lot of pictures. You’ll find highlights within this post and the full batch here.
I started in Deerfield with breakfast at the house of [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
DEERFIELD, Ill. – A very rare thing happened to me today: I experienced an event that exceeded my expectations for it.
For all the prosaic writing I’ve read about Wrigley Field, as I got off the subway at Addison and Sheffield I couldn’t help thinking that I was nonetheless about to walk into the oldest stadium [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
CHICAGO – I’ve done a lot of travelogues before, and I have a bad habit of stating on the record that I intend to do an entry from somewhere. Most of the time I make myself live up to the promise, but every once in a while I forget, or the circumstances make it not [...]
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