Big City

Here we are in the middle of Chicago ...... go figure. Actually we are over an hour northwest of the downtown area.  Yesterday afternoon we got kicked out of a campsite for the first time .... (well, it was a casino). We sometimes stop at casinos and they all have RV parking spaces and they let you park there for the nite.  We were hoping to stay a little closer in to the city, so we tried this one .... but no deal; so we headed on out to the KOA in the burbs.

We wanted to "see the city", and with Charlie's goal of seeing all NFL stadiums .... we did it. 
I've not been in a city with such a mess of freeways!  But Lake Shore Drive is absolutely wonderful.  There are public parks and swimming beaches, and boat basins all along the lake shore.  And all busy with hikers, bicycles, swimmers .... the people of this city have wonderful access to the shore, and all clean and seemingly safe.

Yesterday we met a friend for lunch .... we met her last year in Florida at a campground we all stayed at for several weeks.  She's single and travels alone ..... pretty gutsy lady I say (It takes all three of us to keep this buggy moving and operating).

Tomorrow we head north into Wisconsin.  First stop will be the Jelly Belly Factory in Pleasant Prairie; then on to Wauwatosa to tour the Harley Davidson production facility.  
We got this book titled "made in America".... which has factory/manufacturing tours listed all over the country.
Now some of them seem interesting just because.....    and then some of them seem interesting because of the free samples you get on the tour.   (Our best one of those was the Tillamook Cheese Factory in Oregon - yum!)  But anyway, the book says you can sample all the Jelly Bellys you want and then they give you 2 ounces of your favorite ..... worth the trip I'd say.

Later, Marilyn