Day 02 – Cleveland, OH to Chicago, IL – July 26th, 2007 - 345 miles

Waking up early we went down to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame along the shore. The museum had an impressive collection of artifacts from almost every big name rock band in history. Some of the most interesting artifacts were the first drafts of a few songs I’ve actually heard of… like rambling man and walk this way, most of which were composed on hotel memo paper. There were exhibits walking you through the entire history of rock from its beginning and its influences in the major cities across the US. Cleveland also has an interesting collection of artistic giant guitars all over the city, but I lost all my photos of them when my camera magically deleted my images…. Arg…. And my ski trip photos… After I got my fair share of rock we started the journey to Chicago. For the most part the trip was more of the same until you hit Gary, IN were I soon learned Chicago is pretty much surrounded by a 50 mile ring of filth. In Chicago we hit heavy traffic getting downtown of course. Once we got settled we grabbed some world class deep dish pizza from a place called Girganos (I think) it’s diagonally across from the Sears Tower on Jackson Ave. After dinner we went up to the Sears Observation Sky Deck, 103 stories up. The views were pretty impressive being that we were in the highest building in the US and 2^nd in the world I think. Later we toured the city some and saw some of the cool displays in Grant Park along the water front.