Been quiet here, huh? Well there’s a good reason, and it ties into my last two posts. I just got back from a road trip to Chicago. I wish I could say I got lots of good photos, but this wasn’t a photo trip. I got a few, and I do mean FEW. I wound up staying at the Hyatt Lodge on the McDonalds University Campus. This is where they bring in all the restaurant managers from around the globe for corporate instruction. (BTW – the Hyatt is one of those places where, if you sneeze, they charge you $6.00!)
Picture: Curving bridge on the McDonalds University Campus (Hamburger U.), Oak Brook, Illinois.
So why did I take a road trip to Chicago that resulted in almost no photos?
I was asked as a ‘family-favor’ to accompany my Father-in-Law as copilot on his drive out to Chicago. He is the former National President of the Mercedes Benz Club of North America. He is leading a caravan of 150+ cars along the entire length of Route 66, from downtown Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier in California. So I helped him with the drive out to Chicago – which explains the Nevada road and Wyoming photos from the previous posts. I wish I got to take the trip with them, but instead, I got thrown on a plane. We drove the 2100 miles under boring blue skies, and hence no photos along the way. (OK, I did get a couple out the car window passing over the Mississippi River, but they’re so bad, I won’t show them to anyone.) I took my camera, mainly for the plane trip home, which I planned to be around sunset, but overall, the skies were quite hazy.
Woof.
That’s too bad Gary that you didn’t get any photos. I would have traded you the week-long of freezing overcast weather I got in Iowa for the blue skies though.
Hey Gary, next time you visit chitown give me a shout!