Still Raining in Chicago

Tim and I are on the road again – 360 miles from Akron, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois. Tim has some work related business so we left the Buckeye state for the state that starts with an "I" and ends with an "S". I have no idea what this state's nickname is. I only know Buckeye because Tim is from Ohio. This would be my first time to Illinois and this being where Frank Lloyd Wright made a name for himself, I was excited to get into the city and go for some tours!

We didn’t have much time so we booked up. We made it to Oak Park in 6 hours – in traffic and made the last tour at 3:20 p.m. of his first house in Oak Park and his studio. Loved it! The man was oh so arrogant and brilliant.

Highlights of the trip:
Ohio – Indiana: corn and really cool rest stops. The rest stops were destination spots – very nice, very clean and several good choices for food. Ohio Turnpike, you’re awesome!

Indiana – Illionois: corn and surprisingly nice landscape. There were more hills than Ohio, well, I don’t know if they were hills but it wasn’t totally flat like Ohio. Rest stops were okay, but the Ohio rest stops had raised the bar and the Indiana ones were just average.

Chicago: traffic and smog. Don’t know if that’s a highlight but that’s all I remember.

And the biggest highlight – we didn’t fight! It might have been the food that Tim’s mom packed for us. We were sated and calm on the drive.

We’re staying at a hotel right in the city close to everything. It rained our first night while we went out to get some deep dish pizza. I’m beginning to think that one of us is a rain witch. Wherever we go it rains!

Deep dish pizza – eh. It was okay, but all I could think about was all the cheese and didn't I say I would eat healthy in the last post? Wait, I said I would cook healthy so that meal is okay.

Tomorrow Navy Pier and the Art Institute. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain…well, it’s almost guaranteed that it will rain since one of us is a rain witch so I hope it doesn’t rain too much.