This is the third page of our cross-county trip.
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This is the third page of our cross-county trip. (Click on any photo to see a larger version; Use your Back button to return to this page.) |
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| We arrived in Chicago on September 7th, and spent three days visiting friends and family there. We were able to park the rig on the street, right in front of Jeff and Lynne's home in the Irving Park neighborhood, which gave us lots of oppotunities for quality time with grand-daughter Anna Grace. | |||||||||
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| Our Chicago sight-seeing included an "Architectural" boat tour on the Chicago River, will great views of Chicago's skyline, including the Sears Tower, as well as re-purposed warehouses that are allowing Chicagoans to reclaim their riverbanks as great places to live and work. Chicago's latest urban gem is its Milennium Park, finished this year (four years late) at a cost of $420,000,000. It's a great addition to Michigan Avenue, with unique fountains, a Frank Gerhy-designed amphitheater, ice rink, outdoor café, and more. We had lunch their with friends Carol and Bob, who shot a photo of us beneath the "Cloud" sculpture, which critics have dubbed "The Bean." | |
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We left Chicago on Thursday Sept 10, following the scenic east shore of Lake Michigan (the photo on the right shows us overlooking the dunes near Traverse City. We spent Friday evening and night with friends in Grayling, Michigan, leaving the next morning so we could visit the historic Soo Locks in Sault Sainte Marie before crossing into Canada. Because we wanted to visit Montreal and Quebec City before catching up with RVing friends in Vermont, we put in our longest driving day on Monday 9/13, logging 502 miles to get to the outskirts of Montreal. | ||||||||
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Montreal is a large city with a fascinating mix of old and new, French and English. We spent most of the day wandering around the old city, leaving in time to move the RV to a park just outside Quebec City that night. That gave us a full day to enjoy old Quebec City, which feels like a trip to France. We found a delightful garden cafe (with live jazz combo) for lunch, a restaurant chinois for dinner, and -- just before leaving -- the most amazing three-story high trompe l'oeil mural that featured figures from Quebec past and present. That's Samuel De Champlain standing next to Jackie. On Thursday morning, we left for Vermont. | ||||||||
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