Chicago

Lynette and I left Buffalo late afternoon of April 14, 2011 and headed west.  The Country Ridge bar was right next to the Super 8 motel in Toledo where we spent the night-- in the motel, not the bar.

Arrived Chicago's Chinatown for dim sum brunch about 11 A.M. Friday.  Here we see what I think is an apartment building.

Christian school

Won Kow our choice for lunch.

Up and up 3 flights of stairs, no handicap access. . . but a note in the foyer that they will deliver to bottom of stairs.  We climbed.

Apartments

Funeral home

Bakery.  Lots of yummy looking eats, but note the brown cookies on 3rd rack: sesame and pork cookies.

Fascinating, 3rd Sundays in Italian.

Deli with squid

Palmer House canopy

Detail of lobby.  A lot of show for the dough, but the beds were incredible.

At Frank Lloyd Wright Park

FLW marionette in the gift shop next to his home and studio.  We toured the home and also Unity Temple.

Many Wright homes in Oak park

Our farewell to chicago at Portillo's for Italian beef.  GO THERE.

Rock 'n Roll McD's.

Worth mentioning again...

Food stop in Erie, PA on way home.  Now why didn't I think of this? 

A Month on the Road

My procrastination is probably a sin... if I am the one responsible for it. I'm hoping that it is the result of early childhood brain damage, like from falling off a bed or something, as infants do.

Whatever, I'm finally going to say something about the 30 days I spent via Greyhound visiting friends and family in several States. I mean eventually. For now, I'm posting the pictures I took, and will try to put them in chronological order.

Truck supper with my son Kevin at Atlanta bus terminal.  Don't remember the name on the food truck, but they made a great burger.

Daughter Lizanne-- with Louie.   OK... Louis. C'est francais.  Now in Simpsonville, SC.

Pete's Pizza night.  He made several-- great pizza builder! Here with Lizanne, Sarah, his parents (Alex and Pauline) and Emily and her then bf Cameron.

I arrive in Natchez, met by MDF Gail and her sister Sue.

At DK's went to pick up order, stayed for buffet!  Mama Sumrall in front.

Sibs Mary, Gail, Henry, Sue, Margaret... Shellribbon fighting a rare blood cancer, a years long battle she will soon lose.

4 sibs at their mama's: Sue, Henry, Gail, Glen

night at Isle of Capri 

an early morning view at the Sumrall homestead

Mary and her daughter Darlene...and itty bit Koko

Some of Darlene's menagerie, also chickens, dogs, rabbits, and a fawn

At Sue's with her daughter Dany and Molly, Gail and her friend Rik and Kokomo

UTAH

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