Wednesday, 26 August 2015

25.8.2015 Driving to Chicago

Weather ideal for travelling: not to hot ( temperature in the mid 70 F ) but a bit overcast.

Having done all our chores in Birmingham we hit the road at around 11:30 am.  Leaving

the Detroit traffic behind us we reached I-94 West some time later.

From here on it was a smooth ride in a western direction only interrupted by a pit stop

close to the Michigan / Indiana border to fill up gas and have a coffee with a cherry cake.

Traffic started to to thicken when we reached the vicinity of Chicago but thanks to Sandra's

GPS system ( on loan from very good friends of hers ) we managed to drive through the Chicago

traffic without any problem and didn’t even miss any of the turns we had to take.

At around 4:30 pm we reached Oak Park and our motel. 

Unpacking was the first on the agenda before we started a walk through downtown Oak Park to

stretch our legs and indulge a great ice-cream at “Coldstone Creamerie”: French Vanilla mixed with

roasted hazelnuts.

Delightfull !

I will definitely have another one whilst we are here.

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