Chi-Town & Illegal Dune-Running

Blog updates? Hell yeah.

On time? Hell no. ;-)

(To view all of our pictures - Click here)

We got to a motel outside Toledo, and started the "low card game"

Basically, the guy who draws the lowest card sleeps on the floor. Rough.

Alex drew the low card first, so he spent the night curled up in the fetal position next to the AC.

Got up early in the morning, and headed west.

We drove by Cleveland - the Jersey shore of the North. And literally saw industry leaving the city.

(If you've seen that video, <3)



Great pics of that :-)

All in all: We showed some endangered species who's boss.

We headed back to the cars, walked by a few park rangers, emptied the sand out of our shoes and kept on heading west.

Finally, we hit Chicago.





Maggie went AWOL again, and sent us driving through the rape tunnels under the city, and we almost died multiple times trying to find parking underground.

At one point, we pulled a K-turn into two lanes of oncoming traffic.

Found parking, walked a few blocks to a Four Seasons and got a pizza recommendation from the concierge.

We walked three blocks to Giodarno's (sp?) pizzaria, and had the most ridiculously awesome deep dish pizza you could ever imagine.





It was like a pizza stuffed with cheese, sausage, peppers... You had to scoop it onto the plate, then slice the cheese strings off, to separate it from the rest of the pie. Un-fucking-believable.

Very stuffed, we headed to the Sears Tower for the obligatory sight-seeing. The visibility was shit, but an unlucky coin toss forced us to head to the top. The view was amazing, and highly enjoyable.





Somewhere along this adventure, Alex tried to get into a rotating doorway at the same time as Garrett... And now Garrett's toenail is bruised and ready to crack off.

Tough love.

Garrett wants to remind everyone that Alex bought the biggest, gayest pink lollipop you've ever seen, and gnawed on it for the next couple hours.

We took a cab back to the garage, paid like $500 for parking, and started out of the city around 5.30.

Like in all cities, Chicago's rush hour traffic is shitty, so we waited in traffic for awhile, until Alex got a chance to showcase some driving skills and crossed a 4 lane highway in like 50 feet.

Maggie yet again dropped the ball on directions.

Brendan won a $2 bet on how Kevin Costner's name is spelled.

(I still call bullshit)

We realized we couldn't make Denver in just a day, and stopped in "Iowa City" - Which turned out to be an optomitrist's office.

That's it. Just one building. Weakest city ever.

So we kept on going to Coralville, Iowa.

Iowa has a lot of corn. No coral. The name surprised us.

Had some Arbys. Garrett got his wallet stolen, by Brendan, and spent an hour or so looking for it.

We set our sights on Omaha NE.... AAAAAAAAaannnddd... I'll finish more tonight :-)

Leaving Lincoln, NE now. Denver tonight.

Your Tresspassin', Outlaw Friends,

- Hell On Wheels


PS. Lovin' the comments. Keep 'em comin'