We all met up one last time for breakfast in the hotel & then said our goodbyes. Boomer is driving to Duluth, V & L have an early afternoon flight home to Nth Carolina and Lemon is staying one more night at Jim's before heading to Texas. We will all meet up again in San Diego. We packed up and checked out. Setting the GPS to avoid tolls and highways we set off pretty much due south for Oklahoma City. A short distance out of town we saw a jet taking off w...

We woke early but didn't move ourselves with any speed. There's no microwave in our room so couldn't make our own breakfast. Downstairs in the foyer we found Boomer and a couple we didn't know but got introduced to by Boomer. We checked out the hotel breakfasts and they weren't too badly priced but there was only standard fare much like we usually cook for ourselves so we decided to treat ourselves. We drove to a local Village Inn for breakfast which was pretty...

We woke early and slowly got breakfast ready and organised ourselves. Setting off for Omaha along the back roads we again were in corn country, mile after mile of dried out corn fields. Here and there some had been chopped close to the ground or was in the process of being razed. The terrain is less flat, more gentle rolling hills. Again there's a lot of water, rivers, ponds marshes etc in one marshy area there were a lot of herons both the white and blue ver...

Sept 24 Time to pack up, check out and move on this morning. We missed breakfast so it was scrambled eggs and coffee in our room. We were pretty much out of fuel when we got here three days ago so first up we hit a gas station. Knowing it'd be way cheaper elsewhere we only put in $20 worth @ $2.99/ gal. We took a leisurely drive back towards the city mostly with the lake beside us on one side and green spaces with squirrels bouncing around on the other. Fo...

We booked a gangster tour on line last night so we walked to the train and caught it downtown. We walked a few blocks to the meet up place and hopped on. The driver and tour guide were dressed as gangsters from the 20's and spoke like them too. It was two hours of touring all four areas of Chicago being regaled with stories from prohibition and beyond. Most of the actual buildings where things went down are gone but here and there evidence of that period remains ...