Travelogue

Summer 2007

After years of half-heartedly making plans to go on a serious road trip, I finally get the motivation to go to a music festival in Washington State. It involves almost 3000 miles of driving each way, and is scheduled to last for about 3 weeks. I convince three friends to go on the trip with me; after all, this is going to be a life-changing journey, right? Plans were made, and then when the summer finally came, we were off!

Chicago

The first place we visited that really made an impact on us was the Windy City. To us East-coasters, Chicago seemed like the New York City of the mid-west. It wasn't as big or as grand as New York, but it seemed a lot brighter and more cheerful. My favorite place was Millennium Park, newly built around 2000, that was just packed with some of the most amazing monuments and attractions, such as an outdoor concert space with metallic beams twisting a silver spiderweb over the open grass lawn used for seating. We tried to condense everything that we needed to do into three days, and one of those things was to sample some of the best deep dish pizza that we could find. We visited the art museum, record stores, and walked around the many neighborhoods before we had to move on with our road trip.