We're less than an hour from Chicago, now, and hoping to get another four or five hours in before we stop for the night. We're making great time, though, especially since we gained an hour when we crossed the time zone line on the Indiana/Illinois border. We're hoping to get as far as we possibly can today since it's only another 10 or 11 hours to Stevie and Annie's house in Minnesota and we'd like to get there early tomorrow and have the whole afternoon and evening to relax and visit with them. Steve is one of my dad's oldest and closest friends from when they grew up in Milton, outside Boston, and they always have some great stories of their escapades. I'm really looking forward to seeing them; it's been so long!
It's sort of shocking to me, actually, how quickly Indiana passed beneath our tires and was gone. It's actually taken me so long to type this on my phone's little qwerty keypad that I'm now staring at the city scape of Chicago for the first time in my life. After what seemed like endless miles of nothing but corn and soybeans as far as the eye can see, I'm actually stuck in gridlocked traffic in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the country.
Here are a couple pictures of the city as I saw it, as well as a ridiculous display I saw in a rest stop gift shop in Indiana. They're called Roffle Buddies they're just stuffed animals with a mechanism inside that makes them literally ROFL (Roll On the Floor, Laughing), and they emit this maniacal cackle that makes me wonder what diabolical bastard thought a child would enjoy such a thing. Anyway, that's all for now. More soon!
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