Miles 409-726: Drive to Chicago

Sorry I didn’t blog yesterday; we didn’t have time. Yesterday morning, before we left Cincinnati, we ran down a path by the Ohio River: about 2.5 miles, in around 23 minutes. XC and track teams: not a word. I really like running while we’re on trips because it’s a really unique way to see the city. For example, did you know that there’s an exact copy of the Brooklyn Bridge in Cincinnati, and that it was built first? Anyway, the drive to Chicago was pretty uneventful. It started raining about as soon as we crossed into Indiana, so there wasn’t much of a view or many picture opportunities, except for once. We drove through a giant wind farm: both sides of the road as far as the eye could see for about 20 minutes. When we finally got within view of the city, it was huge!!! And Lake Michigan looked like an ocean. There was a bunch of fog, so you couldn’t see the top of many of the buildings and couldn’t see very far across the lake. We drove along the shore of Lake Michigan for around 40 minutes to our hotel, and there were buildings on our left the whole time (don’t forget, there was traffic). Then we went to my dad’s friend’s, Mr. Harris’, house. He had three sons: Will (10), Emmett (7), and Sam (6). We played whiffle-ball and hide-and-seek tag. We also tried deep-dish pizza for the first time. It was really, really good. It was basically thicker layers of everything on the pizza. The reason I couldn’t write this later is that we stayed at the Harris’ for a long time, till almost 11 our time (12 your’s). We actually gained an hour on the car ride, which was really helpful for getting ready and staying up later.

“Willis Tower is the tallest building in the country, 479 feet taller than the Empire State Building.”