Turkey

Not posted anything for quite a while, I have been working in Turkey for the last six months.

The job has been an interesting experience on a lot of levels.

Home again (eventually)

We are now back after having a spent two hours plus on the runway at O'Hare due to weather radar failure. Its wet and cold here :-(

Its been a wonderful adventure and I will be creating a web site to bore everyone with :-)

Karen killed some time having a look in the cockpit whilst we waited for the radar to be fixed !!

Some pictures of Captain Willy and his co pilot of the 777 can be seen above.

The Last Night Down Under ????!!!

Our last evening in the States and we went to an Australian Steak House !!

Lovely sunset the last two nights as you can see, back home tomorrow sigh...

Downtown Chicago and the end of 66 !

We (well Karen) drove into downtown Chicago today, the weather was great and we managed to officially finish the Route 66 wrong way round trip !!

Since our last visit Trump towers is nearing completion and we had some fun at Millenium Park, along with window shopping in Michigan Ave where I had a play with an IPhone (very impressive !!)

MSL Sunday

I went to see the Chicago Fire V DC United in the MSL today.

Really nice new stadium, great atmosphere, Chicago should have won !!

Me and Jim Belushi have something in common, it was his first MSL game as well :-)

Showtime !!

We went back to Chicagoland Raceway today to the Good Guys national hot rod and custom show. Fantastic line up of cars as you can see by the photos.

Vroom !!

Karen had her Nascar "Rookie Day" at Chicagoland Speedway which was fantastic and very professionally run.

Outdoor World

Been taking it easy for a few days, had a look at a giant new shopping mall in the local area and had a long walk at the lovely Naperville Riverside.

Particularly interesting was the Bass Pro outdoor world shop, which has everything you need for any outdoor pursuit on a giant scale !!

P.S we have changed the car for a smaller model now we are not travelling such large distances.

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

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We were very kindly invited and taken to see the Chicago White Sox play Baseball at US Cellular Park. We were hoping to be lucky and see Jim Thome hit his 500th home run, however it wasn't to be his night !

It was a very close game which the White Sox lost 2-1 to the Angels. the evening concluded with a superb firework display

A most enjoyable evening all round :-)

The end of the road :-)

We spent quite a lot of time in St Louis this morning particularly at the riverfront and the arch. Afterwards we set off on Route 66 at the Chain of Rocks bridge from both the Missouri and Illinois ends, we also visited the famous Ted Drewe frozen custard stand. We alternated between Route 66 and the Interstate and ended up in Naperville at around 9:30pm, tired but happy. We will calculate how many miles we have covered over the past two weeks, a rough estimate at this point is around 2,800 !!! Going to have a rest for the next few days :-)

Now you go through St. Louie

Made our way up from Memphis to St Louis today, really nice weather all the way along with some very odd place names :-)

We saw a mileage sign post when we stopped for lunch which brought home how far we have actually travelled !!

Our Hotel in St Louis is near the Ballpark, Riverfront and the Arch, we had a nice meal down on the Riverfront.

Last leg into Chicago tomorrow...

And finally

We have just had a great evening, nice dinner and watched the amazing Beale St bike night.

The most amazing sight, we didn't take any pictures but I borrowed one from here http://www.pbase.com/bpowell/image/64960291 that gives you the idea, fantastic !!

Night !!

Walking in Memphis

We had another really great day today !

Our travels today covered Graceland, Sun Studios and the Lorraine Motel amongst others.

The weather was very good once again, we will go out for a meal and listen to some music in Beale Street, which is already busy and full of Harleys as it is "bike night"

Off to St Louis tomorrow.

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