Road Trip - Day 3
We had driven around 230 miles from Ohio into Indianapolis yesterday and got a good night's rest. Today we drove close to 800 miles and that was all we did.
At the start of the trip, I had planned it in a way that we would not touch any of the major cities. That plan was kind of dashed today, when in search of an Indian restaurant, we were unwittingly led by the GPS into downtown Chicago. We lost about an hour and a half out there and it sucked!! The roads across the USA are in a state of being repaired and thereby causing huge traffic blocks. But on the positive side I got a glimpse of the Sears Tower and the Chicago Stock Exchange. My tryst with Chicago is hopefully done!
The drive started in a rainy Indianapolis but the weather cleared as we headed Northwest and as we went further, it turned into beautiful and sunny August day. The windmills on the sprawling farms were a sight to behold. Those giant rotating blades were awesome!
Our lunch was at a small food court somewhere in Illinois. This food court is built on top of an Interstate Freeway and the dining chairs are arranged in such a way that you are actually overlooking the oncoming traffic. So it was amazing to see these huge trucks approach you and then pass under your seating area even as we were eating our lunch. Never seen anything like that.
Later during the day we drove through Illinois, Wisconsin and now in Minnesota. Wisconsin I must admit is the most beautiful state I have seen so far. The green carpeted farms that stretched for miles and miles with the granaries, barns and small homes amidst them is a sight that takes your breath away. The crop blowing in the wind, cows grazing on the idyllic hillsides and occasional horses... this is stuff that would inspire poets. Right now I'm still stunned by the beauty of the US Countryside.
Then we skirted by the Lake Superior and the city of Duluth on its banks. We are right now in a small town called Hibbing in Minnesota. We came into the town at 11:00 PM. It was a surreal experience, with the mist hanging about a meter off the ground and the town looked like a ghost town with no vehicles or people on the road and a few scattered houses and a couple of hotels here and there.. Spooky!! :-)
At places where the fog was thicker it was scary to see huge trucks suddenly appear out of the mist. Luckily it was not in too many places.
At the start of the trip, I had planned it in a way that we would not touch any of the major cities. That plan was kind of dashed today, when in search of an Indian restaurant, we were unwittingly led by the GPS into downtown Chicago. We lost about an hour and a half out there and it sucked!! The roads across the USA are in a state of being repaired and thereby causing huge traffic blocks. But on the positive side I got a glimpse of the Sears Tower and the Chicago Stock Exchange. My tryst with Chicago is hopefully done!
The drive started in a rainy Indianapolis but the weather cleared as we headed Northwest and as we went further, it turned into beautiful and sunny August day. The windmills on the sprawling farms were a sight to behold. Those giant rotating blades were awesome!
Our lunch was at a small food court somewhere in Illinois. This food court is built on top of an Interstate Freeway and the dining chairs are arranged in such a way that you are actually overlooking the oncoming traffic. So it was amazing to see these huge trucks approach you and then pass under your seating area even as we were eating our lunch. Never seen anything like that.
Later during the day we drove through Illinois, Wisconsin and now in Minnesota. Wisconsin I must admit is the most beautiful state I have seen so far. The green carpeted farms that stretched for miles and miles with the granaries, barns and small homes amidst them is a sight that takes your breath away. The crop blowing in the wind, cows grazing on the idyllic hillsides and occasional horses... this is stuff that would inspire poets. Right now I'm still stunned by the beauty of the US Countryside.
Then we skirted by the Lake Superior and the city of Duluth on its banks. We are right now in a small town called Hibbing in Minnesota. We came into the town at 11:00 PM. It was a surreal experience, with the mist hanging about a meter off the ground and the town looked like a ghost town with no vehicles or people on the road and a few scattered houses and a couple of hotels here and there.. Spooky!! :-)
At places where the fog was thicker it was scary to see huge trucks suddenly appear out of the mist. Luckily it was not in too many places.
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Thanx buddy. How are things with you. I have not tried uploading onto the blog. Did not want to make the blog heavy. So uploading on facebook.