Its a 9-hour flight from London to Chicago and it wasn't the best of flights, there seemed to be even less leg room on this one than the others plus if the seat in front was tilted back you couldn't see your TV screen anymore, it never ceases to amaze me with every flight we take they try to cram the seats closer together to pack more people on.
Although if you put the app on your phone or tablet you can stream straight to that instead, anyhow I had a couple of films and some podcasts to catch up on any way on my tablet so that killed a couple of hours or so.
It was a bit of a pain getting from the terminal to the train station as the signposts are few and far between, the strangest part about this was that there is no transport like an AirTrain or bus to take you there so we ended up walking from terminal 3 to terminal 2 which is about a mile through a variety of car parks, going up down in several elevators until you reach the CTA train station.
The best and cheapest way to travel around Chicago is by using a Ventra Card and adding 7 days unlimited travel for $24, even though you have to pay $5 dollars for the card to start with its still really good value for money.
After making our way down through what seemed like a construction zone down onto the platform,
this was due to a train not stopping when it reached the end of the line and smashing its way up the escalator to the mezzanine level the previous year, we caught the Blue Line train into the city then changed to the Red Line that would take us to the Gold Coast area just north of the city. It took us around an hour on the trains but it at least it was only a short walk to the hotel and arrived at about 6.30pm which would be 12.30am the following day in the UK.
The Hotel Indigo has some fairly funky colours in the lobby and rooms with the biggest bed I've seen
so far on any of our trips, we were on the 12th floor as well so your not going to get any traffic noise at that height although it would be a long to walk down the stairs if the fire alarm went off, I must say you get a good view from up here.
It was time now to dump the stuff out of the cases and head down to Walgreen's on the corner to buy some drink then cross the road to get some booze from CVS, I'm really not in the mood to go to one of several bars that are at the end of the road. I'm sure there will be plenty of time to visit these over the next two weeks.
By now it was about 9 pm or 3 am on Monday in the UK so had something to eat back at the hotel that we had bought from the shop, we could have done with a fridge in the room with the temperature being 30 centigrade but at least the air conditioning was quiet and you do get a safe as well.
With that it was time to call it a day, it really takes it out you travelling a long way.
