Run Forrest Run

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Oh Yes!

Bubba Gumps at the Old Navy Pier Chicago and the mother of all drinks a CoronaRita, a half bottle of Corona upside downing Margarita, Pickled liver anyone?

Two of these and I’m anyone’s, so to sober up a little we are still walking all round Chicago and enjoying a tea and coffee outside the Tribune Tower (which has rocks and stones in it from Edinburgh Castle, Houses of Parliament and many more). A slow womble back then to the hotel to rest at 2am UK time.

A good start to the holiday.

Forrest Ran from here.

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Chicago My Kinda Town

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Howdy y’all

8.5 hours on a average virgin flight (oh how they have gone downhill).

Here we are in Chicago, 6 hours behind the UK in 28 degrees heat. Nice

Now walking tour to stretch the legs and more food.

Route66 starts from here.

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Leaving on a Jet Plane

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Wow two postings in a day, you’re either very lucky or very not, like we care 🙂

And here is the Maiden Tokyo that will be whisking us to Chicago.

Catch you in 8 hours. A big hi to the Finks, looking for to catching up real soon.

66 is Here, Almost

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Lovely evening at the Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport with some really nice food, nice company and a little falling down juice.

After another early start (5am), we are all checked in (our combined luggage was 13kg, an absolute first for Mrs Fogg). Off to that there London on the new internal Virgin flight “Little Red”, without any of their own planes, so it’s run by Air Fungus or “Little Green”.

And sat at the gate an attendant came to ask if our hand luggage had need tagged (a little sticker), no but why do we need it asks Mrs Fogg, “to show its been tagged”. That answers that then!

Yee Haa.

Luggage?? Pah!!

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Who needs lots of luggage on holiday? certainly not us when we know we’ll have two small panniers and a top box on a Harley DynaGlide bike. So this is our teeny packs for the three week holiday.

Five tee shirts each, one pair of bike trousers and that’s pretty much it, as well as two bike helmets. So here’s to Febreeze and Laundromats!

Counting down to the flight…..

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Leaving on a Jet Plane

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And here we are waiting for a shuttle bus to take us to the hotel for the night, after our late start with the flat tyre. Mrs Fogg’s car actually needed two new tyres on account of how much rubber she burns!

An all too short catch up with the Caddies before we set off. Next stop feeding Mrs Fogg, early night then off to Heathrow bright and early. 745 to London then 11am to Chicago.

Flat start

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First day of our holiday and things were looking good. Mr Fogg was dispatched this morning on errands while I finished packing and the final bits at home.

All was on track. Cue Mr Foggs return with a problem. One very flat tyre on the car we’re taking to the airport. Torrential rain too. Joy

So my hero Mr Fogg jumps into action, battling terrible rain and German engineering to get the jack out and popped the skinny on the car. So two soaked people later and I’m now in York waiting for Slow Fit to find a slot to replace the tyre. Apparently they are really busy so it’s likely to be 2pm before this will happen.

Thank goodness we are flying tomorrow not today.

oh, and thunderstorms in Chicago forecast with heavy rain for the first day on the Harley. Now where’s that number for the hire car company?

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The Non-Sensical Tour

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We’ve decided, well ok I’ve decided as part of the Route66 tour to incorporate this with the non-Sensical tour, spotting all those things that really make no sense at all.

So to kick off the tour we came for a swim to the local gym and decided to have a snack afterwards and here is our first Non Sensical sign.