Road Trip: Day Two

This morning we made the two hour trip from Elkhart, Indiana to Chicago. The plan was to spend a couple hours in the city, just because it was sort of on our route and I'd never been there. We saw Chicago-y things like the El:

Of COURSE, literally the moment we started walking down the street from the garage, it started pouring. We ducked into a conveniently located Starbucks (is there any other kind?) and waited out the mini-monsoon. The rain didn't last long, but it was still cloudy and hazy when we got to the Willis- Sears Tower Skydeck for a view of the city. On a good day, you can see four different states from the Skydeck, but we weren't so lucky. It was still pretty cool to stand on the glass and look out over the city. The levels below had interesting facts about Chicago and the Tower too.


Flags on the wall of the Sears Tower lobby, part of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics:

After we left Chicago, most of the scenery looked like this:

Illinois and Iowa were basically just a blur of farmland with the occasional rest stop or small town for punctuation. Of course, there was also an "Oasis" that I'm sure was mind-blowingly special:

We didn't stop at the "Oasis," but we DID stop at this Iowa 80 truck stop. It was just as cheesy/lame/gross as it looks:
We got into Council Bluffs, Iowa fairly early, and we're planning to head out early tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a LONG day, with no stops planned aside from rest stops/gas. The plan is to get to Green River, Wyoming, about 11 hours away. Whew!