Here comes bod!

My train was cancelled tonight, because of a freight train derailment out near Buffalo, which has blocked the line East of here – I had the option of a nine hour bus trip, or to just give up, stay in Chicago and make the most of it.

So I went back up the Hancock tower, the city was fantastic in the dark – really incredible – very very very good, and it seems like I was the only one with a decent camera, so I became the unofficial photographer for the night – I’ve got four addresses of people who want a copy of my pictures.

So anyway, I checked back in, stored my stuff and took a nap – only to be rudely woken at 3:15 by the fecking fire alarm, so all 300 of us were turfed out into the -12’C night air.

It was only while I was out on the street, clutching my camera that I realised that I’d left my passport, money and tickets in my room – I had enough for coffee and twinkies, so I slunk around to the 24 hour seven-eleven to sulk about my stupidity.

Apparently it was a false alarm – which I guess is a good thing. Maybe I should sleep with my travel docs close to hand. Well maybe not, I’m stuffed full of caffeine and sugar- so sleep isn’t really on the cards anytime soon, still the 2 gigs of photos are pretty cool to look through.

I’ve survived the great blizzard of ’05 and got some amazing shots of the way the place coped with the lousy weather. Chicago knows how to handle snow – they had people out until 3am cleaning and salting the streets – it looks beautiful, although you’d freeze your nuts off, if it wasn’t for all the coffee bars around here.

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