15th September - We headed back into Chicago to see the last few things we wanted to see here before moving on. We went to see the centrepiece of Grant Park, the Buckingham Fountain with its 1.5 million gallon water capacity, but it was under renovation so we could not see it gush on the hour or light up to music at night. Last thing on the list was a boat cruise along the Chicago River and onto Lake Michigan. We thought a sightseeing event would be nice to finis...

8th September - Waking up in our laughably bad and flea bitten motel, we remembered a funny thing that happened last night and was neglected in last weeks blog: we had just finished laughing after checking into and perusing our laughably bad and flea bitten motel (lots of broken windows with cardboard hardly covering them, everything filthy etc) when we decided to pop out for some food - not content to limit ourselves to one meal a day, Kirsty has embarked on the...