Day 01, (Sunday, June 29)
From: Summit, NJ
To: Chicago, IL
Miles: 798
Time in the car: 13 hours
Weather conditions: Mostly Cloudy / Showers
Traffic conditions: Good until Chicago area, the messy
Number of stops: 4
Today's road:
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Pictures: HERE
Events:
06:30 AM, Leaving Summit, NJ
07:19 AM, Crossing border to Pennsylvania
11:57 AM, Crossing border to Ohio
03:47 PM, Crossing border to Indianna
06:35 PM, Crossing border to Illinois
07:33 AM, Arriving to Chicago
After an early wake up (Pifi and Spi used to the French time...), loading the car with all our stuff (luggage, food & other useless things!!), we finally took the road at 6:30, direction to Chicago! First step of our great trip, but not the smallest one since Google & TomTom indicates a big good 13 Hours driving without counting the stops!
I first drive to get out of Summit and get on the US80 and then Pifi take the wheel for the first time (Kind of scary .... hum), and then Spi took over. Driving in the US is not that bad ... it's the others not very easy to drive with!! hahaha
Conditions were OK, we had couple of heavy showers but most of the time, cloudy. So not too bad at all to drive. We stopped few times for gas & stretch legs. The car is pretty comfortable to be 3 inside. 2 in front and 1 in the back with the cooler!
Arrived to the hotel, Sofitel of O'Hare Airport in Chicago, we got all our stuff in the room, and we enjoyed the pool / sauna & gym room to relax after that first long day. We had a nice diner with a weird pizza (famous in Chicago, deep dish), and a great night.
7 comments:
Bon Voyage guys, ca fait envie... quoique, avec Pifi au volant ca n'a pas l'air rassurant :) moi je pars en Inde pour 2 semaines, on se voit a votre retour :)
Bonjour mon Homme,
merci pour ton suivi sur ton blog. Qu'est ce que c'est que ce drapeau francais ?? il est sur ta voiture ou quoi ?? qu'elle est votre prochaine etape
Bon voyage
Papa
The youb road trip has started !!
I'm glad that you are having fun !! enjoy the trip, Chicago is a really beautiful city !!!
Faites un bon voyage, je suis décu de rentrer que le 16 à LA et de vous rater.
A+, Ludo
Have a good trip mate! I'm sure you're going to have a good time, I'll keep checking your blog + picasaweb entries!
bravo pour le suivie sur ton blog!!je te souhaite un bon voyage,profitez du beau paysage et des belles choses!!!je t'embrasse bien fort Ta Maman
Sophie demenageant retrouve FREE le vendredi 10 ds son nouvel appartement. ms je vais lui dire de lire ton blog au bureau!!!
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