Posted in Photos, Travel, Vacations, Weekend Update on August 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Three happy campers on the interstate, driving in a rental car towards Wisconsin. Is that not how all good weekends begin?
For most of the traveling the scenery is very standard. Once out of the cityscape and the suburban Chicago familiarity, the I 90/94 looks much as other interstates which we have taken to get [...]
Posted in Chicago, Photos, Travel, Vacations, Weather on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Whilst browsing through the first download of the photographs from the weekend I was reminded of how worried I was about how the weather would treat us. The storms on Thursday night were truly atrocious; The Experienced Camper called on Friday morning to say that her power had been knocked out over night.
It was [...]
Posted in Life in America, Me, Photos, Travel, Vacations, Weekend Update on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks for the tip, petersdigest. (Shame on my other reader for not responding. Come on mum, I know you’re out there.) Sadly, although we took your advice, we also took the kitchen sink. And still got bug bites.
On the plus side, Dr Internet tells me that the three huge, swollen bites in a straight line [...]
Posted in Las Vegas, Photos, Restaurants and Hotels, Travel, Vacations on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Where were we? Oh yes, getting an early night ready for the limo ride to the airport. I’d done some research on the company we used and had read a few negative reviews. Obviously, they had the least number of negative remarks and there were some positive ones around there too. A large proportion of [...]
Posted in Chicago, Fireworks, Life in America, The Apartment, Weather on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel incredibly foolish sitting down to describe the storms which have been rolling around above us this afternoon. So far, all we have managed in running commentary is fairly banal; plenty of wows, a few crikeys and the ubiquitous awesome. Something so huge that it lights up the entire sky and yet so brief [...]
