We did our best to avoid the toll roads into Chicago, but still had to drive on a few turn pikes. It’s such a foreign concept for us Washingtonians to throw change at a box while driving at 60 miles per hour (our aim wasn’t perfected yet so we had to slow down a bit). Our first night in Chicago, we had to go out for a Chicago Deep Dish pizza at Giordano’s. We thought we would be macho and order the one that said it served 4 people…that was a mistake…we could barely walk home. 
Our second day in Chicago started with a trip up to the top of the Sear’s Tower (our country’s tallest building at 1450 feet). Afterwards we walked all over Chicago seeing Buckingham Fountain, Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue, and Navy Pier. On Navy Pier, we got interviewed by some student’s interning for CBS. We had a fun time in front of the camera, but we found it interesting that they wanted to know more about our experience on Navy Pier than our 12,000+ mile road trip. You missed out CBS!That night we met up with Han & Erin, our hosts for the night. This was my first couch-surfing experience. They were a ton of fun to hang out with that night. They showed us around the city and took us to all the trendy places in their neighborhood. The next morning we went out to the Bongo Room and had an amazing breakfast before heading out for Indiana and Michigan. Mark had vanilla and carmel glazed, banana-nut battered pancakes and I had an amazing omelet with bacon fried hash browns.
Lost in the bean in Millennium Park: Can you find us?
-Red
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