One month from today we will be living it up in Chicago! Boarding Amtrak, Detroit to Chicago, we will have about 5 hours to wear fedoras, smoke cigars and play vicious rounds of canasta. Angelus has requested a medium bodied Dominican blend cigar, while Ed prefers full bodied - obviously. Hubba Hubba.
I may be most excited about the train ride. I once traveled by train, alone, from Detroit to Tucson and I had an amazing time. 16 and awkward, I meet new friends and learned quite a few life lessons, I even had my first kiss ::smooch:: A guy named Eli, a perfect gentleman, who departed the train somewhere in Texas. I may be romanticizing train travel, but would fain choose train over plane.
Our traveling companions will be my Ya-Ya Luna and her family. Luna has some paperwork to turn in to the German consulate in Chicago (because she is a spy) and has graciously allowed my family to tag along on her trip! Let's hope she isn't deported. ::wink::
Our accommodations will be a suite at the stylish Affina Hotel and we will be calling on The Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium. Posh and sophisticated darling.
Our last (and first) trip to Chicago was a day trip in 2007...
Say you're going on a train trip, where would you go? What would you see?
I've been planning a train trip to the Badlands and the Sequoia Trees for a couple years...it has not been accomplished yet...now I've been informed that it might end up a truck trip with the motorcycles in the back of the truck...really want to take this trip west...
ReplyDeleteOoooo... I LOVE the train! I haven't been on a train trip since I was a kid... But I loved it! Trains over planes ANY day!
ReplyDeleteI would take the train to Oregon... then with my bike I'd travel to a hostel & stay near Seaside... and I'd go to the beach every day. ^-^
East to West coast on a train would be amazing. <3
ReplyDeleteHave a slice of Chicago pizza for me! I hear it's the best! Have a great trip!
ReplyDeleteLOVE train travel, and one day would love to travel to the west coast that way (We're near Philly). :)
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time!
~ Carolee
Sounds like a great trip! Chicago is one of many places I'd really like to go. I hear the architecture is amazing, and to be able to sit on the beach in the middle of a city just seems like a pretty cool thing to do.
ReplyDeleteahh, love the train, the trip back and forth between here (portland) and seattle is lovely, and i do have so many random memories. from quiet rides along the water and through the forest to a conversation with a cute boy that turned in to holding hands and stolen kisses. more recently, this past thanksgiving-time i took the train from london to northern scotland...not so comfortable for 9 hours with the lights on in an overnight train, but with the man i was dreamy in love with at the time so it was worth all the discomfort for some snuggling and some of our conversations with strangers on the way home in the light of day.
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