Today was the start of the road trip from Chicago to Pontiac.  In theory a plain sailing   (Yeah right!) 85 mile navigation out of busy Chicago and down through Joliet onwards to Pontiac.

Kevin and I in the car and MrFogg on the bike.

Which would have been fine until we lost Mr Fogg somewhere on the four lane (and very busy) I294.  Cue a rather stressful hour of “where the hell did he go” until we finally made contact on the phone to find he’d gone a little too far south on the I294 instead of turning off south west into the I55 towards Joliet.  So Kevin and I pulled up in Romeoville and sat watching traffic, counting cars, school buses, Harley’s and cross legged waiting for him.  An hour or so later…..thank goodness, he’d found the route and popped into sight!

On then for a very good run all the way to Pontiac, without us managing to lose Mr Fogg this time.  

With early evening closing in we finally pulled into our motel for the night.  It certainly isn’t the Ritz……nor is it quite the Bates Motel but it’s clean and has beds.

Tomorrow we will go explore lovely downtown Pontiac, a favourite from our last trip.