Chicago: the city of fire, Capone, of the abattoirs, Elliot Ness, of the newspapers of the concrete blocks as shoes, Jordan, Pippen and Kukoc, the Croatian connection Illinois said Montes, "Obama. I'm not really in Chicago, but at 70 km. They say here that is not distance, which they say must have car. For that, I stayed at gigs in Chesterton and Gary - "The Steel Yard City" and "Michael Jackson's childhood home," said one poster to the input, both in Indiana, not even the suburbs of Chicago.
Yesterday I wanted to go to Chicago, and as I say, without car, not here make it easy. Searching the Internet I see a company train to Chicago, South Sore Lines stop is nearby. The bad thing is that on weekends only train every two hours, so it's not the thing to miss a train because whatever also takes an hour and a half, especially on the outward. I say the stop is close, about 3 km according to Google Earth, but even if I wanted to walk I can not, why? Because the hotel is in a mall (a couple of banks, a McDonald's, a Taco Bell, Burger King, a chemist, a Depot Home, the typical motel of the movies where they are senators with hustlers and they cop a photographer and out the next day on the cover of a newspaper that sells a child's face and hat rascal while shouting "Extra, extra!", etc) in the middle of forests and to the station but there are no sidewalks forest and a highway. Well then, ask a taxi to be in the hotel time for me to leave the station.
arrived at the station and there is a sign saying that closing the service line until Gary works some weekends. Cojo. This is in English and read it many times to be sure. Yes, closed some weekends in exchange for the catenary, the online resumes in Gary and that there is a bus that goes to the Gary station that spends 10 minutes before train time off. Time passes and that assumption is no bus. I see that bothers me the day because I have to re-order another taxi back to the hotel, make time, take a taxi to Gary, and all this to get to Chicago at lunchtime. Ask the few people that are in season and know nothing of the bus. I read the poster as if it did any good, as if suddenly read that this is not the weekend to suspend the line.
These comes a "pick-up with four in their fifties, most of them American, and they run screaming from them to miss the train. When they tell them not to run, no train. And start telling them what I read in the lineup. They get to talk to each other and there in the middle hear "... Ok, we` ll go driving ...". Then And then I turn on the light. I think it does not help but think and say "Now!, Now!" As they say Zalacaín the adventurer to cheer when questioned. I tell them if I can carry with them to Chicago, they pay the gas.
A-la suspicious quickly says no, I have never been a stranger in the car. Another leader, says that good. I explain my situation a little, that I understand, but I want to go to Chicago anyway, I have only this day and I can not go otherwise, I'm English, I just stayed at gigs in which. A-la-vacilona tells me that if I gun and starts to laugh and cache. The case for talking a little more accepted. En route to Chicago
them four and me. The vacilona tells me to see if you are going to be careful I'm going with them. The leader gets behind the wheel, and driving is fairly butt. I co-pilot. At first I talk a lot, I tell them what to do here and elsewhere, thank you. Soon we're all relaxed. Spain ask me, we talked about Chicago, the dangerousness of Gary, the typical "because in my country ..." I would say Jotto, we laugh that I have been caught. Arriving we lose and get to argue with them when we are finally in enough trouble finding parking downtown, just now I've been told that I will not pay for petrol and when I say that at least let me tell me that the parking No way, I say that if at least we will have a souvenir photo.
decide to park in the parking of large commercial center known in Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile, Avenue department stores. Here we make the picture, we wish him well, the suspicious tells me not to do that again, not everyone is good, that "somebody harm May you"-the language of fear and threat as American as of "I have a gun to defend myself, what am I to do if someone comes in my house?". When I hesitate to give you two kisses and hand them come and embrace me. A nice farewell. I'll take this road trip. In a country there are always people to take away the prejudices you have of that country. I thought I had learned in Morocco but I still learn from it.
here we are, from left to right: the leader (which come to Chicago because, really) was the first that showed up and forget your name, then the vacilona Terry, Lane then I do not talk and finally Tina distrust. Great!
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