Midwest Road Trip: Illinois
Taste of Chicago: Garrett Popcorn
Date: May 3rd, 2008 | 7 comments
When I travel, I love to seek out those unique attractions or events or food/drink that can only be found in certain places.
In Chicago, Illinois, I found Garrett Popcorn.
Now, I don’t leap out of bed in the morning in search of popcorn. It’s an OK food, but not one of my top favorites.
Still, I’d heard that Garrett in Chicago is …
The Hot Dog Man on historic Route 66
Date: March 18th, 2008 | 2 comments
There’s nothing like driving through small-town America and stumbling upon a 19-foot statue of Paul Bunyan holding a giant hot dog.
Kids put down their Gameboys pretty quickly when they look out the car window and see that!
After miles and miles of authentic Midwest agricultural wonders (this is your brain on corn) …
It’s true; Chicago has changed from the 1920s
Date: January 15th, 2008 | 4 comments
(This is cross-posted with the Perceptive Travel blog.)
In the U.S., there’s a saying usually ascribed to Native Americans about getting another person’s perspective by “walking a mile in their moccasins.”
As a traveler, it’s always interesting to see my country through another’s eyes.
As I scanned my local newspaper the other day, I noticed an Associated …
Chicago architecture, seen from a river cruise
Date: September 12th, 2007 | 7 comments
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How do you trick your kid into admiring modern architects like Mies van der Rohe and the wedding-cake intricacies of the 1925 Chicago Tribune Tower?
Take her on a river cruise run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF.)
They offer all sorts of interesting tours, but on our July 2007 visit to the City of Big Shoulders, we wanted a …
This is your brain on corn
Date: August 1st, 2007 | 1 comment
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See this Missouri cornfield? Or maybe it was an Illinois cornfield. They are beginning to run together.
Now, put this picture on both sides of your vehicle, run the corn out to the horizon, and drive past it for, oh, days and days.
Alternate occasionally with soybeans.
That is when you understand why this is “America’s Breadbasket” or whatever agricultural blurb …
My kinda town….Chicago is.
Date: May 12th, 2007 | 7 comments
Frank Sinatra sang that the Windy City was his “kind of town” (courtesy songwriters Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen) and I have to agree.
This is just a quick post while I’m here this weekend for the fabulous SOBCon 07 blogging conference, which ends today.
We are out near O’Hare Airport, not downtown, but yesterday I did manage to run …
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