Dan Murphy
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Hey, you took me there.Went to Disneyland (of course)
Hey, you took me there.Went to Disneyland (of course)
The memory of you sitting in the passenger seat in my little RAV4 always gives me a smile.Hey, you took me there.
Ugh. We have out of town guests at least once a quarter, and they all want to go to downtown Chicago. Crowded, hot, and EXPENSIVE. They come for a fun weekend getaway and have money to spend, we are just at home and budget for a normal regular weekend.
So, IF we had our way, we would take them to these places, or at least strongly encourage it!
1. Cantigny - Wheaton IL
2. Starved Rock, Utica IL
3. Morton Arboretum - Lisle IL
If we had to go downtown, we try to take them to free/slightly less-expensive places, (then send them off on their own for day 2):
1. Millennium Park/Grant Park
2. Science and Industry Museum or Field Museum (because those are the only two museums we are still interested in after living here for 8 years)
3. Magnificent Mile
That's pretty much my list, but I'd use the streetcar ride as just transportation with a view and add the World War II Museum.The French Quarter
Commander’s Palace
Streetcar ride on St. Charles Ave
1) Essex Steam Train
2) Gillettes Castle with a side trip to Devil's Hopyard to see the pretty falls
3) Mohegan or Foxwoods
The memory of you sitting in the passenger seat in my little RAV4 always gives me a smile.
It's been too long, my friend.
Stood in the rain for 80'ish minutes just to get on and then lurched violently along with no view except butts and armpits, scared silly one of the "danglers" would get pitched off the side while the "conductor" yelled and swore at traffic. So, so not what I was expecting from iconic scenes on tv and in movies. We got off downtown and took a cab back to Fisherman's Wharf.
Rice A Roni....that San Francisco treat!Stood in the rain for 80'ish minutes just to get on and then lurched violently along with no view except butts and armpits, scared silly one of the "danglers" would get pitched off the side while the "conductor" yelled and swore at traffic. So, so not what I was expecting from iconic scenes on tv and in movies. We got off downtown and took a cab back to Fisherman's Wharf.
Good idea. I had a hard time picking just 3!That's pretty much my list, but I'd use the streetcar ride as just transportation with a view and add the World War II Museum.
And all of that for me is less than a 5 mile radius.