I’m half way through my 2 day journey to Bogota, Colombia. Did the red eye flight from Portland into Chicago, got lucky with the hotel having a room available when I showed up at 6:00 AM. Now I’m on a jet flying from Chicago to Toronto, Canada. Yep, flying Air Canada on one of their smaller locally built jets. The flight attendant has a cute smile and there is no one sitting next to me. When I was checking in the lady at the front desk asked if I wanted to fly out on the 7:00 AM flight instead of the 8:30. I figured, “what the hell, I can either sit in Chicago for 2 hours or Toronto instead.” I haven’t been through Toronto before, so I have a new place to wonder around and explore.
I ended up sleeping most of the day yesterday since I didn’t get any sleep on the red eye into Chicago. I can never sleep on the plane for some reason. So, I didn’t go down town Chicago to see the sites. Oh well, I’m going to be doing a hell of a lot of wondering around and exploring once I get into Bogota.
I did go to a local pizza shop close to the hotel called Gino’s for dinner and tried out some Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. It was a heck of a lot better then the Old Chicago Pizza joint back in Hillsboro. :) Also, it must of been good because there was a picture of President Reagan on the wall having lunch there. If Reagan ate there, it must be good, right? The service was, well normal for Chicago, but the pepperoni and cheese pizza was darn good.
I forgot my USB cable for my iPhone, so I stopped off at a Brookstone at the airport to buy one. I feel like I was violated after I saw how much the damn thing cost. 25 bucks for a cheap AC/DC converter and USB cable? Probably cost a buck fifty to produce AND ship from China… But what can you do? I needed to charge my phone and there wasn’t anywhere else to go buy one. Still feels wrong though…
That was a short flight. We’re starting to descend into Toronto, so I better shut this down. I’ll be posting later tonight when I get into Bogota.
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