Cold in Chicago
Saturday, December 10th, 2005My 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.
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