Getting ready for Halloween
2015年10月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Megan and I head out for the day. On our way to the train station we pass this house that is totally ready for Halloween. I'm so ready for the holiday, no matter where I end up.
Starting with the bean
2015年10月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Megan started to your me around Chicago. I took a few pictures of the famous bean. And the coolest pic under the bean.
Shedd aquarium
2015年10月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Megan and I started our day by going to the aquarium. These are some of the cool and pretty pictures of the fish.
Deep dish pizza
2015年10月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We went to Giordano's and got the Greek salad and veggie stuffed pizza. The pizza takes 45 minutes to make and we had a seat to keep an eye out on the Cub's game. Much better than my experience withもっと詳しく
Navy pier
2015年10月13日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
We left the John Hancock building and walked over to show me the navy pier. It was closed by the time we got there, but I still get to say I've been to the navy pier. We left hopped on a bus andもっと詳しく
Lincoln zoo
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
I get free roadside parking and go to the free zoo. When I get I got to see yet another beautiful view of the city. I was also entertained by the old cars that they turned into food stands.
Zoo exhibits
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
This wasn't a big zoo, but because the weather was cooler the animals were much more active and visible than what I am accustomed to seeing. I almost got a video of a zebra squealing at a little kid.もっと詳しく
Art at the zoo
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Of coarse I always enjoy the artwork that places choose to put on display. I really enjoyed the flying man and the intense gorilla stare.
Snow monkeys
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
I made it to this information session on how they are doing research on the monkey's social and intellectual skills. They are teaching the monkeys to use a touch screen. They show live feed at theもっと詳しく
Children's zoo
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
I finished at the zoo and went to the kids section. I got to feed the black cow and saw a glimpse into what a milking station looks like.
Illinois river
2015年10月14日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
I met up with Anton, my host, and he showed me around the very small town and then took me to a park to show me a place he likes to go and relax to look at the water. After that we went to the localもっと詳しく
Starved Rock State Park
2015年10月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
I got to the park and met this family from Minnesota that I ended up hiking the trails with. We didn't go at a fast rate, but it was really fun to be able to talk the whole time and they even offeredもっと詳しく
Wooden sculptures
2015年10月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We got to the Starved Rock resort and they had great big wood carved sculptures. Really cool stuff. We even passed by a wedding taking place outside. I posted the best picture I could get of the brideもっと詳しく
Matthiessen State Park
2015年10月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
I headed to this park that was about 3 miles away and hiked these paths for a while. I didn't have a posse anymore, but it was an interesting park and I'm sure even more beautiful when they haveもっと詳しく
Ottawa
2015年10月15日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
I return to Anton's home and he says he wants to show me around Illinois some more. We had over to the area that he works and he shows me the memorial they have for Lincoln vs Douglas.
Chicago dog
2015年10月15日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
After talking to Anton for a bit, he decides we don't have to go see Chicago. He settles on taking me to the Harrah's casino in Juliet. I finally taste a version of the famous Chicago dog and I get toもっと詳しく
Jelly Belly
2015年10月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
I stopped at the Wisconsin visitor center and saw the brochure for this factory tour and of I went. I can't saw it was a super exciting tour, but it was cute and I got free jelly beans.
Appleton
2015年10月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
I arrived at Sean's house, my host for the night. He was very inquisitive and it was fun answering all his questions about my trip. He is trying to expose his kids to traveling more and I was happy toもっと詳しく
Oshkosh
2015年10月17日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
I met up with Derek from couchsurfing and he showed me around. We started at the farmers market where I tasted my first cheese curd. It was cold, so it didn't squeak. We checked out the zoo and sawもっと詳しく
EAA Museum
2015年10月17日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
I went with both Derek and John to the museum. We were able to talk our way in for free because there was so little time left before it closed for the day. It was very popular for the area because itもっと詳しく
Rich Guzzi
2015年10月17日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
I was so excited to be able to see this show on the road. As always just so funny. I got to take a picture with him and made Derek a fan as well. Super fun night in the tiny town of Shiocton, with aもっと詳しく
Dairy and cheese
2015年10月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
I headed up to the Marieke Gouda and tasted their dissent types of goudas. The staff was super friendly and there were so many cows, both real and fake. And of coarse cheese. Lots of cheese.
Second corn maze
2015年10月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
I went outside to wait until the 1pm milking and saw they had a minion corn maze. Not as fun as the first one since it was partially torn down, but I still got a little lost inside which was fun.
Milking cows
2015年10月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
I waited until 1 in the observation deck. I got to see all the cows line up and wait to be milked in this contraption. I stared and stared and I don't know how they did it, but I figured out they wereもっと詳しく
Irvine zoo
2015年10月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
I went to the visitors center and asked for a nice place to hike or jog and they suggested the local park that also had a free zoo. It was such a nice place, even though most of it is underもっと詳しく