Somewhere Over The Rainbow Rainbows are always great to see in the sky. What is even more impressive is viewing them from great heights. Connie captured the rainbow today from the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago, IL.
Driving into the City for Luncheon We drove a portion of yesterday’s route to pick up some information about a web development firm that I saw in passing. It is near the Rose Hill Cemetery that we entered yesterday. And after getting the information we decided to grab a bite to eat from Native Foods [...]
Hot Dog Tour Distance: ~30 Miles Description: Our stops will be Murphy’s Red Hots at 1211 Belmont; Superdawg; Poochies. I replaced Hot Dougs because the line is normally too long. I added Murphy’s because it had the highest rating in an on- line hot dog website I had visited. www.hotdogchicagostyle.com/ I wanted to give it [...]
Rain, Rain, Go Away! The announcer on WBBM Radio was explaining that we could expect rain this morning and a thunderstorm was possible late afternoon. It was around 5:30 AM and this was not the kind of news I had wanted to hear. So when Connie asked what sort of things I’d like to wear [...]
Honoring Major Taylor Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George [...]
How Do You Observe A Day Like Today? Many of the folks we heard cheering along the trail were watching a football game. One lady we passed was listening to a game on her transistor radio as she rode her bike. When we left the trail for home we stopped in Naperville for a bite [...]
Another Year, Another Try The older you get the more acute the need to find something to stave off being “slower” than you were the year before. And besides there is a long and proud history of body sock riding on the Left Coast. Out there you can’t really be cool riding an Easy Racers [...]
Setting Out The weather today was very cool and breezy as compared with that of yesterday and the day before! It made for a nice almost fall-like ride to the Oakbrook REI. We took the Illinois Prairie Path Trail to Villa Park where we left it at Summit and rode the rest of the way [...]
A New Destination Whalon Lake is situated in Bolingbrook, IL. The lake itself was formed when a quarry was allowed to fill up. There is a trail that circumnavigates the lake with a small climb at the southeast corner, otherwise it is pretty flat. There is a gazebo on the west side of the [...]
A Hodgepodge Day It was after a bit of a late start that we grabbed breakfast and headed out to get a preview of the ride we plan to do tomorrow. That one will take us down to Whalon Lake in Bolingbrook, IL. This is a really nicely designed recreation complex which contains a fishing [...]
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