A Trip to Libertyville, Illinois, USA - 31st August-3rd September 2004
A busy work trip with chum Nick C from work to Motorola in Libertyville, near Chicago in the U.S. doesn't leave much time to wander around downtown Chicago, but gives a couple of hours here-and-there to look around Libertyville itself, a rather quaint Midwest town in the state of Illinois, 40 miles north of the Windy City. It also gives the chance to fulfil a number of American clichés: a diner, a school bus and a fire engine...
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Somewhere over the U.K at 20,000 feet |
The greater Chicago area |
O'Hare Airport. It's just like flying around in Flightsim! |
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On the first morning, a State Trooper scopes out the grey rental car (well, maybe he was just doing paperwork) |
On the edge of Mundelein, a quintessentially vernacular church |
More scenes from around town |
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We take a trip down to Forest Park to see what amounts to a housing estate comprised entirely of mansions |
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The beach in Forest Park, on the edge of Lake Michigan |
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A nosh-up at Mickey Finn's in Libertyville: a micro-brewery and eatery. The portions are so huge that we survive by splitting 3 starters between us for dinner. |
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Breakfast at Elly's Pancake Diner in Mundelein. Nick has a 4-egg-and-sausage-fest, Nosher eats a huge heap of pancakes with pecan nuts and maple syrup |
The area contains several distinctive onion-shaped water towers |
Walking into 1000 Technology Way, and one of the Motorola offices |
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Nick, Nosher and our host Joel stride over to the Motorola canteen... |
...which is about the size of a small town |
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More wandering around Libertyville |
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A fire truck rushes past |
Another great U.S. icon: the small-town cinema |
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The outside seating area of Mickey Finn's, our port of call for food and beer |
School bus! It's just like The Simpsons... |
One of our final ports of call is a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts outlet in Gurnee. The doughnut line is in full swing |
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Nick shows off his prize of 12 doughnuts |
The gates are full on our return to Heathrow, so we disembark to a bus on the apron. Welcome back to the U.K.! |
A view of Paddington Station. |
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