Da Iced Car
Da Bears at the Field Museum
An exhibit on maps at the Field Museum.
A gray day to climb the Sears, so I didn’t.
The Amtrak line and Soldier field in the distance
Uni of Chicago at night, a great Gothic campus in the ghetto.
Leslie finally got the Internet installed on Sunday morning, so now were off touring.
Da Neighborhood shoe tree
Da ticket
Da train
Da guide
Da architecture
Da shiny thing in Millennium Park
Da amazing Zamboni
Da Rabbit Leslie liked.
Da American wing of the Art Institute.
Da Deep dish.
Come on Leslie!
I’ve made it to the Lake Michigan!
Stopped by Northwestern Uni, no one here, school is out. My cuz would be here but alas he is studying in Spain. My grandmother used to live just a few blocks north of Northwestern so I figured I would check out the old family home. I turns out that knocking on a stranger’s door at 6pm on Saturday in the United States is not the same as doing it in another parts of the world…oh well 
Devastated that I would not be able to introduce myself and explain my random stop. I headed down Sheridan Road, on the horizon I saw a very interesting looking dome, not any normal dome. Its ribbed construction reminded me of Brunelleschi’s Duomo in Florance, Italy. I later heard it is sometimes referred to as the orange juicer.
The Bahai House of Worship is really an architectural marvel. It is innovative in its incorporation of many different architectural styles and elements into a coherent structure. Architects today should take a look at this building. It predates all the surrounding 1930s suburban sprawl.
I didn’t see another soul from the time I parked my truck until I drove away. It’s good to know that there are still places where you can quietly reflect on your own.
I met Leslie, a fellow Peace Corps Armenia and friend who is working for the Natural History Museum in Chicago and Mojoes Coffee shop. We traded BS stories about our last winter adventure together two years ago in a Bedouin desert oasis outside of Cairo, Jerusalem, and in the West Bank during Armenian Christmas night.
University of Wisconsin, man this is a big place.
Nice campus architecture.
Prepare for snow if you go to school here.
A nice David Roberts gauche and watercolor piece in the University Museum.
State Capital with a dome nearly the size of the capitol in DC.
..and little security, just one cop who was listening to singing in the rotunda.
Great singing
SHADOWS ON SNOWWWWWW.
Our tour guide, big beer cookers. Couldn’t argue with a free tour and free beer.
Miller time for a High Life?
Meet Dean on the tour and he is a camera salesman in Milwaukee and artist, he had the same camera as me and showed me some of the features, thanks man.
The famous Santiago Calatrava winged art museum in Milwaukee
Chicago tomorrow folks.
“O Ya…dis happens all de timmme…now it’s Fargo ized.” that was what the mechanic said when he finished working on the truck and I waited in Burger King for most of the day!
Yum, Super size me too.
Back on the road.
Couldn’t wait for a bud after all those burgers.
Major landscape element: grain elevators and more trains
Renewable energy!!???
The first and last buffalo sighting.
Almost home to Alexandria.
Geese were getting a late start.
Perkins is the Midwestern cousin of the “cracker barrel” minus the scented candles, but with more cakes and pies, bless them for wide selection of eggs benedict.
Cesar Pelli designed the Minneapolis library the first of several new public buildings by “staritects” in Great Lakes region.
The elevator was cool, the lit names on the outside changed as it rose.
The Minneapolis skyline
Hot crepes for all, by man this is a cold city.
Christmas was in full swing here, I hit the parade and all!
These inflated light people were the coolest costumes in the parade.
We were supposed to have snow at Morgan’s last night, this was the morning view.
No Snow yo.
The plains south of Bismarck.
More black Angus, getting hungry.
The super is part with ethanol, making it cheaper than normal gas.
Cheapest gas so far in America, $2.89!
Another great coffee shop in a far corner of America, the Atomic Coffee, downtown Fargo.
Yes, that’s right as I was finishing a 20 below wild night on downtown Fargo…it happened my whole radiator froze up as I was cruising down the road, lucky a weight station was just out of town and a cop advised me to turn back to town, good call or the radiator would of probably blown.
Getting my radiator setup for Minnesota weather… tomorrow $$
Morgan is working for the tribe www.standingrock.org and he is trying to trade me USDA dehydrated eggs for fresh ones, NO! It’s just like Peace Corps all over again!
Good food and beer were much needed in this corner of the great USA. Fifty miles south of the roaring capital city of Bismark, ND.
This didn’t strike me as much of an Avenue.
Looks like more snow and wind on the way.
It just keeps going, no buffalo though, need to come back in the spring and join the round up and Morgan had so many great stories.
Living conditions are not great here, it’s the 6th poorest county in the country. Memories of Tsaghkahovit? Morgan is working through Vista on improving the nutrition of the food available to the tribe members. The town of Selfridge where Morgan lives is a mix of native people and white ranchers, it’s a little touchy out here.
Different world out here for sure.
I was Morgan’s second visitor in a year!!
I couldn’t pass up this shot!
Oh my god it’s another car!
Just a few mins and I’ll be in Bismarck.
Black Angus….very tasty!
The only another thing that was moving in the landscape was the rail.
Trains were miles long.
Mandan North Datoka is major rail depot.
I’m taking it easy today at the Living Stone Inn Motel, in Livington, Montana, a great place to hang out why all this wind moves through…I was thinking about this quote on the slopes and for some strange reason the movie “Hunt for Red October” came on AMC…oh fate!
It is the only memorable quote I can think of about Montana and for a Russian sub captain he was right on, the landscape around Murmansk and Archangel must look similar….it’s a beautiful here.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck… maybe even a “recreational vehicle.” And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in… Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
Captain Ramius: Oh, at least.
View from the top
Sweet jo, first tracks
Avalanche Pups
Chair Rescue
Gondola Rescue
A nice hill!
