Chicago Travel Blogs - Page 14

I am originally from Chicago but have moved to Mexico and lived here for 12 years now.  I have started a new phase in my life (new chapter) and that includes travel and challenging myself... so why not join the two together?   I went "home" saw great friends and ran my first race - a…

We arrive at last after an 8 hour flight to Chicago airport at noon. We are welcomed by local friends to The Richard Vobes Radio Show.

During the summer of 2003 I went to Malawi, Africa for about a month. I spent most of my time working with Save Orphans Ministries (SOM)...tearing down old houses to reuse the bricks, helping out with VBS, and just getting to know the people there. At the end of the trip we had a couple days to relax (we got to go on a safari).

I would like to take you to many great places to check out in Chicago that isn't in the everyday Tourist Trap. Lets explore my city and the many great little hidden places you must see that you wont find on your travel guide of Chicago. Everyone else might say "Oh you have to Walk Michigan Ave." "You must See Grant Park" "Did you go to John Hancock Building?" "Wow the Sears Tower" Well I say thumbs down to that.

Various pictures from various places.

8 States 4 days. I got to see snow fall for the first time. Took a picture with a traveling bear on its way to Mexico.

I woke up to another call from Dan (operations manager) on Tuesday morning, but asked him to call me back because my voice was so horse.  Rich called instead and I talked him through the process of doing my job for a rush order that had to go our before I would be home.  The call took abo…

August 27,  I received a private message from Shiva (batwings) asking me to remove the pictures as they were used without his permission.   Shiva, (batwings) had a birthday on Aug 26th and I looked at his profile photo and thought, I could give him a gift by changing his shot. I downloa…

This was my second time to Roanoke, and by far the longest stay. After almost 2 months I was ready to come back home. My reason for the extended stay: My eldest sister had her 3rd child and I came to help for as long as she needed me. Having been there before, I was thankful to have friends to hang out with when I wasn't filling in as a mom.

I've dreamed to visit Mexico since I read about Maya.. Then I found out it's Aztec, not Maya, before the Mexico trip.. No matter what.. I enjoyed so much for the people, the life and the heritage!! The most thing I enjoyed is Mexican wedding.. so different than our culture!!

So... pictures of police, fire department, ambulance, power/water/public works vehicles ... etc

Took a trip to Chicago..To go sight seeing..

Thursday, October 30thNote: More photos to follow when I have the time to edit them - make sure to look at the ones not displayed in-line by clicking on them at the bottom....Thursday was pretty uneventful (well at least once the twins went to school) and I spent the day working from Chicago with a…

it wasnt really windy, to my disappointment. ha! but my carly and i rode the train from washington dc to chicago. we spent more time on that train than we did in chicago, but it was all worth it. we had almost two days to explore everything, so we had to quickly cram it all in. we stayed with two o…

Today we popped down to Chicago City itself and was imediately impressed with the size and scale of the place, but more than that, how clean and relaxed it was as a city. I was expecting it to be much busier. We met up with Craig Alton for the Untouchable Gangster Tour where we discovered about…