We’re in Chicago.<\/p>\n
We drove from Norman Friday morning. It’s pretty easy… you take
\nInterstate 44 until you get to St. Louis, then I-55 till Chicago. I-44
\npasses through Springfield, MO, the first house Berck remembers living
\nin. We got lunch at Arby’s, and with Berck’s description of the
\nneighborhood to his mom, and his mom’s description of the house, we were
\nable to find it. We would have taken a picture, if we had a camera.<\/p>\n
We got to Sydney’s apartment in Wicker Park after ten p.m. After
\nwalking many blocks in search of food, we settled for a tasty taqueria
\n(where, unfortunately, I left my hat). Then we bought some beer and
\nheaded back to Sydney’s roof (carrying a case of beer up an extension
\nladder is tricky), which had a great view of the moon, the Sears Tower,
\nand some premature fireworks. Sydney’s roommates returned one by
\none and shared our beer and stories. I finally petered out at three in
\nthe morning, but everyone else apparently stayed up until dawn, when
\nBerck came to bed, happy to have had conversation with people other than
\nfellow pilots in so long.<\/p>\n
Saturday we slept till noon despite the oppressive urban heat. We got
\nready to head out to get breakfast (lunch), and the heavens opened,
\npouring rain into the street. But a minute later, it had trickled to a
\ndrizzle, and we walked the few blocks to the L station and caught a
\ntrain down to the Loop. Then we trekked through the intense humidity in
\nthe general direction of Greek Town and picked a random gyro joint.<\/p>\n
Tonight we ventured near the Loop to eat pizza at a place one of Syd’s
\nroommates works at. It was nice to have Chicago deep dish pizza. We
\ngot a pitcher of beer on the house.<\/p>\n
We walked back to and from the L in the rain, getting fairly wet, but
\nit’s nice and cool<\/p>\n
Berck prepared some listening material for us before leaving Norman. He We’re in Chicago. We drove from Norman Friday morning. It’s pretty easy… you take Interstate 44 until you get to St. Louis, then I-55 till Chicago. I-44 passes through Springfield, MO, the first house Berck remembers living in. We got lunch at Arby’s, and with Berck’s description of the neighborhood to his mom, and his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstole some free stuff (that allows one to rip free RealAudio feeds to
\nwave files) and burned them to CD’s. We could have just put them on the
\nMP3 player, but then only one of us would have been able to listen to
\nthem on the way home, since we’ve got two cars going back. We also got
\na great deal on some audio books from Audible.com<\/a>. Both of them are regulars on
\nThis American Life<\/i>. Sarah Vowell’s Partly Cloudy Patriot<\/i> and David
\nSedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day<\/i>, which we listened to on the way up
\nhere. We were laughing so hard during some of his stories. He’s been
\ndescribed as a gay Mark Twain. Most of his stories are about his
\nidiosyncratic family or trying to learn French after moving to France with
\nhis boyfriend. If anyone wants to borrow the CD’s after we’ve listened
\nto them, maybe we’ll loan them to you. They’re pretty good driving
\nmaterial. All for driving to the town where WBEZ is located, home of
\nThis American Life<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"