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Hello from Chicago - First Impressions
So here I am again, on another short excursion away from home.
I've been awake for an hour already and decided the best thing
is to get up and put my first impressions on paper. Since there
is only a one hour time difference between Toronto and Chicago I
decided yesterday I wasn't even going to change my watch over.
So when I came down this morning to use the free computer at the
Arlington Youth Hostel in Chicago, I realized it's not 7 am, but
actually only 6 am. Well, even better, that'll give me more
chance to explore.
A trip to Chicago has been in the works for a while. I have been
here twice before, once in 2001 with 3 of my friends, and once
in April of 2003 to meet my friend Linda who I have known from
back home in Austria since we are 10 years old. You realize you
are getting old when you can say to someone that you have known
them for 30 years...
So Linda, who now lives in Indiana, and I decided to reunite in
Chicago again, so she is planning to come in today at 10:25 with
the South Shore Railway Line. I, on the other hand, decided to
fly this time, instead of driving or taking the train (15 hours
from Toronto!!!) as I did the last two times.
As I've done several times this year already in my trips to New
York City and Vancouver/Victoria, I decided to use my Airmiles
to come down to Chicago on a free flight, and what a great
decision that was since the flight is just over an hour long.
With the help of Airmiles, this is shaping up to be a really
reasonable and cost-effective weekend getaway in a great city
that will allow me to keep my costs as low as possible.
Yesterday, I flew out of Pearson International Airport at 4:45
pm and arrived at 5:30 Chicago time. Chicago's O'Hare Airport is
the world's busiest airport, and judging by the size of the
terminals, I can only concur. After walking what felt like miles
I reached the level where the subway trains depart, and I bought
a 3-day visitor ticket for US$12.00. Chicago, similar to New
York City, has a great transit system, with a large network of
interconnected buses, subways and elevated trains. I am
fascinated by the "el-train" system that runs through the
downtown area and the "Loop" as it is called. The train on
stilts has been in existence since the early 1900s, and it
allows you to see some of the beautiful architecture that
Chicago has to offer.
My destination was the Arlington House Youth Hostel, a place I
had already stayed at during my earlier two trips. At US$56.00
per night for a private room for 2 people (albeit with a shared
bathroom), you can't beat the pricing. The Arlington House is
located in the beautiful neighbourhood of Lincoln Park and
literally just 15 minutes from downtown by el-train or bus. It
took me 45 minutes by train to get to the Washington Station
downtown where I
changed over to the red line which just took
about 10 to 15 minutes to get me to Fullerton.
I am usually pretty proud of my 'highly developed sense of
orientation', but when I left the Fullerton el-train station it
was dark already and I promptly ended up walking westwards on
Fullerton, in the opposite direction of where I was supposed to
go. I managed to successfully delay my arrival at the youth
hostel by about 45 minutes due to walking in the wrong direction
and not being able to connect with anyone who might have known
where the youth hostel is. None of the DePaul university
students that I asked had any idea of where the intersection of
Lincoln and Fullerton was, they were probably all new in town
themselves. I finally arrived at the next larger intersection
"Ashland" and realized I had walked about 2 or 3 km westwards,
in the wrong direction.
Pretty tired from rolling my suitcase around I decided to catch
the bus back east on Fullerton and arrived at the Arlington
House not much later. The Arlington House with its large
entrance hall full of young (and older) travellers and its
absolutely spartanic rooms (no closets, no night tables, no
table lamps, no chairs, no desks - just a metal bunk bed for our
private room) is always an experience. But I love it, it makes
me feel young again to hang out with all these world travellers
and adventurers of different ages.
I had originally planned to head downtown, but due to my detour
I was pretty pooped and decided to just go and eat something
locally. I strolled south on Clark Street which has many lively
little restaurants and plopped myself down in a place called
Ranalli's where I had an extremely filling soup, salad and
tiramisu dinner. After all this running around it was nice to
sit down, read the paper, including the events calendar and try
to figure out what adventures could be in store for this weekend.
Today I got up early, actually an hour earlier than I thought
since I want to do some exploring before my friend Linda comes
into town. I am planning to meet her at 10:25 at the Randolph
Street train station, so I have a few hours for exploring before
she comes into town.
I might take a bus north, or go south into the Old Town
Neighbourhood, close to North Street.
It's going to be interesting.....
About the author:
Susanne Pacher is the publisher of
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foreign countries and is chock full of advice, tips, real life
travel experiences, interviews with travellers, insights,
cross-cultural issues, and many other features. Participate in
our travel story contest
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