God Bless Chicago

[spikescopilot]

Actually, Chicago is the most cursed city on the planet. It is the City of Evil -- I can speak on this authoritatively. Thanks to the wonders of mobile wireless inTARweb (God Bless Cingular), I'm typing this as we're crawling through this h*ll hole run by the evil spawn of the Daly family.

Yes -- I'm bitter.

We paid our $2.50 toll 35 minutes ago and have just finally managed to travel a whole 3 MILES. No, I'm not kidding. Given the state of Route 90, I'm not entirely sure what our $2.50 actually pays for. OH WAIT -- WE JUST HIT 30 MPH.

In any case, our Osh-bound rivet banging friends, we're on our way -- we promise. But we might be a little late.

[captain_john]

Chicagooooo...

Seems that I chose to skirt the city, last I drove out there. There is a perimeter road to the west???

I don't remember incurring a toll either!

CJ

[Anonymous]

And for the real kicker to tranisents -- the toll is double compared to those who use the I-pass electronic pay system. So much for tourism!
-Jim
Wichita, KS, but family still lives near Chicago

[bmurrish]

LOL!!! TShort called and said the same thing about Chicago, but he said he knew a bypass. He did arrive late last night and is staying in Camp Sholler. Andy G and his wife Christina called last night as well and they were just passing through Madison.

[Dan A]

just think! When you get the rv's flying you won't have that problem!!
Dan

[aparchment]

Thanks for the heads up guys. I will be driving from Chicago to OSH tomorrow morning.

Man am I excited. Hope the traffic doesn't spoil my mood.

Antony

[JohnR]

just think! When you get the rv's flying you won't have that problem!!
Dan

Boy is that ever right. We drove up and it took about 5 hours. I was thinking that wasn't to bad as many have to drive much further. On Wed a friend flew his new RV8 in which he now has 70 hours on. Talking with him he mentioned he had 60 minutes from takeoff to wheels down.

Made the drive home even longer. I kept thinking well I would have been home X number of hours ago in an RV.

[aparchment]

I drove from Chicago, Midway to Osh on Thursday morning at 9 am and made it in just under 3 hours. I would have made it a little faster, but I got tied up in some slow moving traffic around Chicago.

Antony

[RV7Factory]

I learned my lesson about Chicago this OSH...

NEVER EVER book a 5pm flight out of the Chicago area in the summer. My 5:05pm flight went wheels up at 12:30am on Thursday, correction, Friday morning.

Oh yea, the tolls suck!