Day 5 continued: Chicago

Day 5 was our longest in terms of hours on the road. It was about 3 miles short of furthest travel day. We made it to Chicago around 5 and I called an old friend of mine who used to live in Chicago for advice of where to get good Kosher deep dish pizza. She sent us to the perfect place, even if it took awhile to get there through the traffic. I don't remember the name but it is something like Da'Nally's. It had a lovely ambience and they let me leave A. in the back near the cook’s lockers. Ironically, it’s illegal to have a cat in the dining room of a restaurant but they didn’t mind keeping her safe and cool inside near the kitchen.

While we were there, I had the odd experience of seeing the first person we know (besides each other) on this whole trip. Basically it was the daughter of some family friends, along with her family. She doesn’t even live in Chicago, but Cleveland and they had come down to visit their parents for the day before their parents flew back to Israel.

While we were in the middle of our conversation, another family I know walked in. This family is from Portland and was visiting their son. Steunned I took pictures on my phone of both groups and mailed them back to my parents who might never have been able to believe it otherwise.

After the fantabulous pizza we hit the road again until we were just too tired to go on any longer and stopped in the Ramada at South Bend, Indiana. So that day we began in Minnesota and went through Wisconsin and Illinois before bedding down in Indiana. Not bad. 4 states in one day.