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August 30, 2004
Riding Around America: Layover in Chicago
Either I'm overreacting because I'm a bit bummed out that this trip is ending or I really did have the most annoying children sitting behind me on the train on my way into Chicago. It was unbelievable. I've never seen such badly behaved children on the train before. Crying and crying and the grandmother doing nothing to stop it. Oh well. It's over now and I'm sitting in Chicago's Daley Plaza. In front of me is a Puerto Rican festival, on my right is a fountain, behind me are workers carving up the concrete, and to my left I have Puerto Rican music blasting from some speakers. It's probably a good thing actually, since my ears need to get used to loud city noise again.
It's a bit depressing to think that this next train ride into New York will be my last for quite some time. I guess I will have to savor it as much as possible. Despite all the travelling I've been doing, I haven't found myself sick of riding on the trains at all. In some cases, like Seattle, it's been a welcome respite from a city that I spent too much time in, and it has certainly never been boring.
However, all this noise here in the plaza is getting on my nerves a bit - maybe it's the jackhammers behind me - so it's time to pack up and head back towards the station, hopefully grabbing some food on the way, then onward to New York and the familiar surroundings of my neighborhood.
Posted on August 30, 2004 at 5:00 PM