Settling in

CHICAGO – Now for the main course. For as much as I enjoyed my time in Chicago and am looking forward to visiting the Bay Area, the centerpiece of the trip starts now as I sit in Superliner Roomette 7 of Car 531 on the California Zephyr en route to Emeryville, Calif. I’m on the [...]

That toddlin’ town

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 [...]

Cubs win

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 [...]

Goals

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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