August 2013 Road Trip Day 2 - CHICAGO!

The windy city of wide shoulders, my kind of town.  I took this picture out the front window on the way into town.  This is where it all began.  Peggy is from the Chicago suburb of Schiller Park,  and at this very moment I am sitting in Schiller Park McDonalds (wifi and a vanilla shake).  Thirty-one years ago I proposed to Peggy on the 103rd story of the biggest building in the picture above.  Back then it was the Sears Tower.  Now it's Willis Building or something close.  So we thought we would revisit the scene of the miracle (she said yes).  We used a credit card in a parking meter to pay $13.00 for two hours on Jackson Street, then walked two blocks to the entrance.  "TWO HOUR WAIT" the employee hollered.  We left.  But now we had paid for two hours parking,  so we walked State Street,  Michigan,  and several others.  We enjoyed the architecture,  the street musicians, the cool weather (in the shade. All in all it was a pretty good day.  Tomorrow we head for Eagle River, Wisconsin.