 | First leg of the journey...
2008-10-07, Chicago, United States. By: Fidgi | | I’m not sure why I hadn’t grasped the thought beforehand. However, it wasn’t until I looked out of the airplane window that it really struck me – if this trip goes according to plan, it will be the l... |
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 | The Final Hours
2008-06-30, Chicago, United States. By: chadica | | In less than 12 hours, we leave for the airport to begin the grueling 16+ hours of travel. Definitely not looking forward to it. Our bags our packed, and hopefully we'll only be charged for one extra ... |
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 | Random Letter Home (from Cape Town)
2008-06-19, Chicago, United States. By: geerty14 | | Hey Mommy!
I love you. I'm flying British Airways. I'm really ready to come home now. No joke about that, I feel like the enemy is really trying to hit me hard, be in prayer for me. There are so ma... |
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| May 18th (Day 1), 2008
2008-06-18, Chicago, United States. By: geerty14 | | "A Poetic Departure," because some of the best poetry is written in airports during those awkward transitional periods of life.
Baggage slash exit, that way.
I-pod-less; lap-top-less.
2 Layers of... |
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 | Before I am gone!
2007-09-12, Chicago, United States. By: akprice | | Alright... Here I am in the Chicago airport ready to leave for Seoul, with one stop over in Tokyo! I am really excited but at the same time I can't stop but think, "HOLY SHIT!" This is a big mo... |
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 | Chi-Town here we come
2007-08-16, Chicago, United States. By: aw80sa | | So after 2 extremely long days consisting of nothing but driving and pee breaks we have made it across 8 states and 2 time zones. We arrived here at our good ol' friend Katie's house (you'll see lots ... |
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 | The beginning of the preparation
2007-08-03, Chicago, United States. By: kenyadenya | | [b]Friday, August 3, 2007[/b]
[b]Pisces March 6th[/b]
You might be excited about beginning a new project, but you are better off now building on something that you have already started. You will g... |
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 | Camp day
2007-06-22, chicago, United States. By: chrissy0 | | Ok sorry I'm a little behind on this but it's nice to see people are checking the site.
This week we were training for day camp (kids that come during the day and leave at night) so there was lots of... |
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| Week number one
2007-06-03, chicago, United States. By: chrissy0 | | I've now been here a week and it's great we've played lots of games and I've met loads of people at the moment I'm 'trying' to learn Russian :D
The camp is HUGE! It has it's own lake and me and one... |
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 | Christmas in the Windy City...
2006-12-26, Chicago, United States. By: cherryloo | | We spent a lonely Christmas in Chicago. Having got all dressed up and pretty for Christmas Eve, we realised that American's don't celebrate it like we do in England. Took us an hour and two taxi rid... |
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 | last day!
2006-12-01, Chicago, United States. By: lotta | | weird! this is the last day of our trip. so strange! it's snowing outside, and everything is white and beautiful. i'm going to miss this city, this country. mostly i'm going to miss traveling. not kno... |
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 | Finally back in the USA!
2006-10-03, Chicago, United States. By: tommyexcel | | It was a long nine hour flight from Frankfurt before we landed at Chicago’s O’Hare Aiport. The local time was 6:15 when we landed, but the time I got my luggage and made my way through customs and ch... |
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 | Leavin' on a jet plane
2006-09-12, Chicago, United States. By: kmulder | | Well, today I leave for 4 months in Europe. Spent the night in a hotel tonight with my parents and leave at 6:45 in the morning... |
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 | Radiohead!!!!
2006-06-18, chicago, United States. By: anemark | | Finally the day had arrived. It was time for the famous Radiohead concert in chicago. We spendt the whole day sightseeing in chicago. we saw the fountain, the seaside, we visited the field museum of n... |
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 | And you say chi city....
2006-06-07, Chicago, United States. By: cadentsoul | | I just got to Chicago after thoroughly enjoying myself in Minneapolis. Beautiful women, quality beer, warm weather and a great city. What more could you ask for? We spent a couple of afternoons at ... |
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 | One Flight Down, One to Go!
2006-06-06, Chicago, United States. By: npexton | | Currently I'm on a three hour layover at the Chicago airport, hoping that I'll be sufficiently tired in the next three hours to fall asleep at roughly 7 PM Pacific time. This is all a little surreal a... |
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 | Sitting and Waiting in Chicago
2005-07-01, Chicago, United States. By: planeteer | | I spent the night in Chicago/O'Hare International Airport, but not on the concourse. I, in all my brilliance, did not connect my flights. When I got in last night, the ticket counter was closed. So I ... |
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 | Encouragement
2005-08-08, Chicago, United States. By: jininchina | | I met a girl on the flight from Raleigh to Chicago. I had the seat next to her. Seeing that she was Chinese, I decided to start practicing my Chinese and to just make a friend. I learned that she had ... |
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 | Hobbit Feet!
2005-07-13, Chicago, United States. By: annadunlop | | Hey there my fellow travelers!
Well, new this week- not so much!
Havin a nice time running after wee Luca, n chillin in the sun! Went to a park with him the other day, i was melting!cz was runni... |
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 | Well, I'm Back
2005-05-14, Chicago, United States. By: cyfer13 | | Geek points for everyone who can tell me where that is a quote from.
BTW: WAHOO! I made picture of the week on the front page of the traveljournals.net website!
This concludes another adventure ... |
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 | clark & belmont and the open road
1999-07-14, chicago, United States. By: lomotravel | | arriving at midway is always a nightmare, it's far out of town, people hate picking you up there, the traffic is awful.. but i flew in anyway, from LAX on a Vanguard flight. I stayed in Mount Prospect... |
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| Weekend Getaway!
2004-11-12, Chicago, United States. By: kanada | | I recently spent the weekend exploring Chicago… what an amazing city! We left BG Friday morning – it took about 4 hours to get there. I passed through three states! Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. We sta... |
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| Last Day in the USA
2004-05-03, Chicago, United States. By: JuanJuanJu | | Well it's Monday and I'm in Chicago. My dad and sister drove me down here last night(much appreciated). We had some excellent Chicago style pizza last night to get that out of our systems before a r... |
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 | Finally Leaving
2004-05-03, Chicago, United States. By: spadilla03 | | I arrived in Chicago on Saturday afternoon, MB was nice enough to give me a ride down here. That night I stayed in with Megan and MB hit the clubs with her friend Sarah.
The next morning MB and I ... |
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 | Dolls, Dolls, Dolls
2004-02-16, Chicago, United States. By: SFOorPSP | | Feb 16, 2004
Today we got up and checked out of the hotel. (The bellman at the Hyatt on Wacker stink by the way!)
We grabbed a taxi and headed for the AMERICAN GIRL PLACE for brunch. The store... |
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 | Museums and Meat
2004-02-15, Chicago, United States. By: SFOorPSP | | Feb 15, 2003
We woke up early. Still sleepy but ready to hit the town! The day was colder and we grabbed a taxi to Ann Sather's for breakfast. Ann Sathers is at 929 West Belmont Ave and is one o... |
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 | Chicago Valentine Day Trip
2004-02-14, Chicago, United States. By: SFOorPSP | | Saturday, Feb 14, 2003
We woke up at 4:00am - our Southwest flight was at 6:35am from Oakland via Southwest. The airport was not too crowded for a Saturday of a three day weekend.
We gave the ... |
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 | O'Hare scare
2003-09-23, Chicago, United States. By: jjjjourney | | My story begins at dinner in the airport in Chicago. While slowly eating our way through our last taste of Burger King we began talk about our upcoming adventure. I can only describe the feeling as f... |
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 | The Leader Of The Pack
2003-09-01, Chicago, United States. By: celind73 | | Chicago is admittedly a rather violent city. The city has a history of violence, going back to the days of Al Capone and his alikes. Crime rates and unemployment rates in some parts of the city are (o... |
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| Windy City Accomodation
2003-09-01, Chicago, United States. By: celind73 | | The Greyhound Bus from Detroit pulls into the Chicago bus station late at night. I'm not sure when, since I don't know if there's a time difference between Michigan and Illinois. I know basically noth... |
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| Battle Field Illinois
2003-08-24, Chicago, United States. By: celind73 | | Soldier Field is a fantastic name for a sports stadium. An ancient tone to it, intimidating for guests, illustrative of the events taking place on the pitch. The construction is equally original with ... |
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