Jim Colyer

I will take my senior pass to the National Parks.

The following sites will be visited during the trip:

Breakfast daily, lunch & dinner

ITINERARY
DAY 1 ARRIVE IN LAS VEGAS
Welcome to Las Vegas! At 6 pm, meet your Tour Director and traveling companions.

DAY 2 LAS VEGAS–ZION NATIONAL PARK–BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK
ZION NATIONAL PARK Guided sightseeing with time to explore.
BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK Guided sightseeing includes scenic drive through the park.

DAY 3 BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK & MOAB
BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK Scenic drive to Moab.
MOAB Free time this evening.

DAY 4 MOAB. EXCURSION TO ARCHES NATIONAL PARK & DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK
ARCHES NATIONAL PARK - Guided sightseeing includes scenic drive through the park.
DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK - Guided visit. Return to Moab for free time this evening. Moab was named after a town in the Bible.

DAY 5 MOAB–MONUMENT VALLEY NAVAJO TRIBAL PARK - GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
MONUMENT VALLEY NAVAJO TRIBAL PARK - 4-Wheel-Drive tour with a Navajo Guide. Visit Goulding’s Lodge for lunch including Navajo Fry Bread.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK orientation drive. Free time this evening.

Breakfast & lunch
DAY 6 GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - Free day. Farewell dinner.

Breakfast & dinner
DAY 7 GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK–LAS VEGAS
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK Morning drive to Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS Your vacation ends at the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. Schedule departing flights after 3 pm.

Breakfast
TOUR DIRECTOR
With GLOBUS, you will get to know your destination through the eyes of a tour director.

LISA PERLA
Escorting tours for 10 years

“It's my passion for travel that led me into the Travel Industry in 1999. Originally from New England, I love sharing the area's historical significance and quaint appeal, especially when the Fall colors are at their most brilliant. My heart especially lies in the West, though, with the overwhelming beauty of our parks and canyonlands. I truly enjoy sharing what this wondrous country has to offer, and my goal is for our guests to leave with once-in-a-lifetime memories.”

Tour Director - LISA PERLA
ACCOMMODATIONS
LAS VEGAS
Treasure Island
FIRST-CLASS


Treasure Island 3300 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV

The hotel features an outdoor pool, hot tub, spa, fitness center, gift shops, beauty salon, business center, several restaurants, lounges, nightlife, and casino. Guestrooms are equipped with cable TV, coffee maker, hairdryer, iron/ironing board, and Internet access.

Hotel Amenities
ys prior to the tour start date.

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CANYONLANDS is the largest national park in Utah. There are spectacular views along the paved scenic drive.

The Island in the Sky sits atop a massive 1500 foot mesa. 20 miles of paved roads lead to many of the most spectacular views in Canyon Country. From these viewpoints visitors can often see over 100 miles in any given direction. The Island in the Sky provides an unforgettable experience.

Thank you for wearing a face covering in Moab.
When visiting Moab, please wear a mask.

Distance from Moab: 32 miles
Directions from Moab Take Highway 191 10 miles north to Highway 313, then drive southwest Driving time to the visitor center from Moab is 40 minutes. Canyonlands National Park is normally open year-round, 24 hours a day. i will take my senior pass.

Canyonlands is open year-round, 24 hours a day, however the park visitor centers close for the winter. Call (435) 719-2313 for park information.
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ARCHES NATIONAL PARK is in eastern Utah. It is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 miles north of Moab. More than 2000 natural sandstone arches are located in the park, including the famous Delicate Arch, as well as a variety of unique geological formations. The park contains the highest density of natural arches in the world.

The park consists of 76,679 acres of high desert located on the Colorado Plateau. The highest elevation in the park is at Elephant Butte. The lowest elevation is at the visitor center.

Administered by the National Park Service, the area was named a national monument in 1929. It became a national park in 1971. There were 1.6 million visitors in 2018.

Map of Arches National Park
The national park lies above an underground salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area. This salt bed is thousands of feet thick in places, and was deposited in the Paradox Basin of the Colorado Plateau 300 million years ago when a sea flowed into the region and eventually evaporated. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic, desert conditions prevailed in the region and the Navajo Sandstone was deposited. An additional sequence of stream-laid and windblown sediments, the Entrada Sandstone (about 140 Mya), was deposited on top of the Navajo. Over 5,000 feet of younger sediments were deposited and have been mostly eroded away. Remnants of the cover exist in the area including exposures of the Cretaceous Mancos Shale. The arches of the area are developed mostly within the Entrada formation.


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The weight of this cover caused the salt bed below it to liquefy and thrust up layers of rock into salt domes. The evaporites of the area formed more unusual "salt anticlines" or linear regions of uplift.[7] Faulting occurred and whole sections of rock subsided into the areas between the domes. In some places, they turned almost on edge. The result of one such 2,500-foot (760 m) displacement, the Moab Fault, is seen from the visitor center.

As this subsurface movement of salt shaped the landscape, erosion removed the younger rock layers from the surface. Except for isolated remnants, the major formations visible in the park today are the salmon-colored Entrada Sandstone, in which most of the arches form, and the buff-colored Navajo Sandstone. These are visible in layer-cake fashion throughout most of the park. Over time, water seeped into the surface cracks, joints, and folds of these layers. Ice formed in the fissures, expanding and putting pressure on surrounding rock, breaking off bits and pieces. Winds later cleaned out the loose particles. A series of free-standing fins remained. Wind and water attacked these fins until, in some, the cementing material gave way and chunks of rock tumbled out. Many damaged fins collapsed. Others, with the right degree of hardness and balance, survived despite their missing sections. These became the famous arches.

Although the park's terrain may appear rugged and durable, it is extremely fragile. More than 1 million visitors each year threaten the fragile high-desert ecosystem.[8] The problem lies within the soil's crust, which is composed of cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, and lichens that grow in the dusty parts of the park. Factors that make Arches National Park sensitive to visitor damage include being a semiarid region, the scarce, unpredictable rainfall, lack of deep freezing, and lack of plant litter, which results in soils that have both a low resistance to, and slow recovery from, compressional forces such as foot traffic. Methods of indicating effects on the soil are cytophobic soil crust index, measuring of water infiltration, and t-tests that are used to compare the values from the undisturbed and disturbed areas.[9]

I will travel with Globus/Monograms. I want to change planes in an English speaking country, then fly to Athens International. Globus will be waiting at immigration and customs with a sign. It is called transfer. Cynthia is my contact, and her extension is 7042. I will take the Greece Escape tour. I will have companions on the coach.

Day 1
Athens Airport - Globus/Monograms. Transfer. I meet the tour guide and my traveling companions.

Day 2
Classical Greece lasted 150 years, the 5th & 4th centuries B.C.

Acropolis means high place. Several temples were built during the 5th century B.C.

The Parthenon is on the Acropolis. It was built between 447 B.C. and 432 B.C. under Pericles, Athen's great leader. The Parthenon was designed by the sculptor Phidias and housed his statue of Athena. The Greeks understood that beauty is a matter of proportion.

Rome conquered Greece in 146 B.C. The Parthenon became a Christian church, then a Muslim mosque. Venetians besieged it in 1687, leaving it in ruins. Lord Elgin shipped the Elgin Marbles to England and to the British Museum.

Greek architecture with its marble columns influenced buildings in Europe and America. Marble statues are idealized. Not only are gods and goddesses perfect, but humans are given godlike form.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, which has been changed by heat and pressure. It came from limestone.

The Erechtheum is a temple on the Acropolis dedicated to Athena and Poseidon. There was a contest between them to see which one would be the patron of Athens. Each offered a gift. Poseidon offered water, which was salty. Athena offered the olive tree as a symbol of peace. She won, and Athens was named after her.

The Erechtheum was named after Erechtheus, the first king of Athens. He is the constellation Auriga the charioteer.

Porch of the Maidens - 6 marble statues serve as columns for the Erechtheum, They are called Caryatids and face the Parthenon. They are replicas. The originals are in a museum.

The Temple of Zeus was dedicated to the leader of the Olympian gods.

The Temple of Athena Nike is the smallest temple on the Acropolis. It portrays Athena as the goddess of victory.

The Thesium is the best preserved temple. It is older than the Parthenon and was dedicated to Athena and Hephaestus as patrons of the arts.

The Theater of Dionysus is the birthplace of Greek drama and was dedicated to the god of ecstasy and wine. During the 5th century B.C., the plays of tragedians Aeschylus, Euripides & Sophocles were performed here.

The Agora was the marketplace where people assembled for politics. Socrates taught here.

The Panathenaic Stadium was built for the Panathenaic games. It is made entirely of marble. The first modern Olympic games were held here in 1896.

Day 3
We cross the Corinth Canal to enter the Peloponnese. Corinth was a city-state.

The Peloponese is a peninsula resembling a hand with a thumb and 3 fingers. Mycenae and Olympia are in the Pelopponese.

Mycenae was a bronze age city, and Agamemnon was its king. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War according to Homer's Iliad. The Lion Gate is the entrance to Mycenae, named for the 2 lionesses.

Agamemnon's Palace at Mycenae dates from 1350 B.C. to 1200 B.C.

We see the Beehive Tombs. (called The Treasury of Atreus, Agamemnon's father). The tomb of Agamemnon.

Mycenae was the main Greek city when Homer wrote in 800 B.C. about the Trojan War of 1200 B.C. The Iliad and the Odyssey were already old during the classical period 500-350 B.C. Troy was in modern Turkey on the other side of the Aegean Sea.

Heinrich Schliemann, a German archaeologist, discovered Troy in 1870 and Mycenae in 1876. He found what he believed to be the death mask of Agamemnon. Schliemann's wife Sophia was photographed wearing jewelry found by her husband.

The theater of Epidaurus is in the Peloponnese. It is still used. This theater shows that the Greeks understood how sound waves travel.

Nauplia is a seaport in the Peloponnese.

Day 4 - Nauplia/Olympia

We spend the day at Olympia. Olympia was a sanctuary for Zeus. A Greek sanctuary was a sacred place for the worship of a particular deity. There are temples here for Zeus and Hera.

Zeus had affairs with mortal women. He became a swan (constellation Cygnus) to seduce Leda. He became a bull (constellation Taurus) to seduce Europa. He turned Callisto into a bear (constellation Ursa Major).

Zeus had an affair with Alcmene, who gave birth to Heracles (Constellation Hercules). Hercules' labors included killing the Nemean Lion (constellation Leo) and Ladon (constellation Draco). Ladon guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides.

The statue of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles is in the Olympia Archaeological Museum. It was found in the Temple of Hera. The statue of Zeus and Ganymede is here. Ganymede is the constellation Aquarius. Zeus wanted Ganymede for his cupbearer and sent his eagle (constellation Aquila) to fetch him.

The Arkadian Mountains are in the Peloponnese.

Day 5 - Olympia/Delphi

The Oracle of Delphi
Delphi was a sanctuary for Apollo. It was home to the oracle that predicted the future. It is on Mt. Parnassus. The Charioteer is a 5th century B.C. statue in the Delphi Archeological Museum. The constellation Auriga represents Erechtheum, the first king of Athens.

Mount Parnassus towers over Delphi. It was home to the Muses.

The seaport of Patras is a fishing village.

The sirtaki is the dance from Zorba the Greek.


Day 6 - Meteroa area - The Meteora is a rock formation with Eastern Orthodox monasteries built on sandstone pillars. Delphi/Arachova/Athens

Day 7
Marathon & Thermopylae
Athens and Persia were enemies. The Greeks won at Marathon but lost at Thermopylae. 300 Spartans fought Xerxes' Persian army at the Battle of Leonidas. We hear a lecture about Thebes, Sophocles & Oedipus Rex. Sparta beat Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
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Day 8 - Breakfast - Transfer - Airport. Globus will help me check in and get on the plane. I change planes at Heathrow? in London and fly to Nashville. Get to Vanderbilt and write my paper. Put it on jimcolyer.com and post it.
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Ancient Greece is the cradle of western civilization. Science, astronomy, architecture, theater, philosophy, democracy & history began in Greece. Greek science was forgotten during the Middle Ages.

1 Thales of Miletus was the first scientist. He predicted a solar eclipse. Ancient Greeks tried to understand the laws of nature.

2 Aristarchus knew the earth revolved around the sun and that the sun was the center of the solar system. He suggested that the stars were distant suns.

3 Eratosthenes measured the earth's circumference to a degree of accuracy.

4 Hipparchus divided stars into 6 magnitudes, a system still used. He called the first stars to appear after sunset first magnitude. He called the next group to appear second magnitude and so on. Hipparchus discovered precession, the 26,000 year wobble of Earth's axis.

5 Pythagoras knew the earth was a globe.

6 Anaxagoras knew the moon reflected sunlight.

7 Heracleides Ponticus knew Mercury and Venus orbited the sun because they stayed close to it.

8 Ptolomy (a Greek living in Alexandria) listed the original 48 constellations.



The great tragedians were:

1 Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound
2 Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone
3 Euripides - The Medea

Their plays were performed at the theater of Dionysus near the Acropolis. Karen and I saw Antigone and The Medea in Nashville.

The philosophers were Socrates, Plato & Aristotle. Aristotle retarded science for 1400 years. His teachings became Church dogma.

Ancient Greece had its religion, different from the monotheism of Judaism and Christianity. Gods and goddesses ruled special areas. There were 12 Olympians:

1 Zeus was the sky god and the leader. He became the swan of the constellation Cygnus and the bull of Taurus to seduce mortal women.

2 Hera was Zeus' wife. She resented his affairs and sent a crab (constellation Cancer) to attack Heracles (constellation Hercules), Zeus' illegitimate son. Greeks saw the Milky Way as Hera's milk.

3 Poseidon was a brother of Zeus and ruler of the sea. In the movie Ulysses, Kirk Douglas destroyed Poseidon's (Neptune's) statue. The god cursed Ulysses, and it took him 10 years to get home after the Trojan War.

4 Hades (Pluto) was a brother of Zeus and ruled the Underworld.

5 Athena was the goddess of wisdom. She sprang from Zeus' head. The olive tree was sacred to her.

6 Apollo was the god of the sun, music & prophecy. Greeks went to oracles to seek advice and to learn about the future. Apollo's oracle at Delphi was the big one.

7 Artemis was the huntress associated with the moon. She befriended Orion, which made her brother Apollo jealous. He sent a scorpion (constellation Scorpius) to sting him.

8 Demeter ruled the harvest. We see her as the constellation Virgo.

9 Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty and the wife of crippled Hephaestus.

10 Hephaestus (Vulcan) was a metalworker who made armor for the heroes.

11 Hermes (Mercury) was the messenger who escorted the dead to Hades.

12 Ares (Mars) was the god of war. Wonder Woman killed him in the 2017 movie.


ITINERARY
Cities visited - Athens, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Nauplia, Olympia, Delphi, Arachova

Tour Itinerary
The Acropolis in Athens dates from the 5th century B.C. The tour begins here. We visit the ruins of Mycenae, dating from 1350 to 1200 B.C. and described in Homer’s “The Iliad." We stroll among the ruins of Olympia, where the Olympic games began in 776 B.C. We experience Greek cooking. History comes alive. We see the 2300-year-old theater at Epidaurus. Ancient Greeks came to Delphi to seek the wisdom of the Oracle. We tour the excavations and visit the Archaeological Museum. Our guide shares Greece's history and stories. Adding to our Greek experience is a Sirtaki dance lesson.

Day 1: ARRIVE IN ATHENS, GREECE.
Welcome to Athens! At 6 pm, we meet our guide and traveling companions.

Day 2: ATHENS.
We visit the Acropolis, perched on a hill overlooking the city. Here, we see the Parthenon, the Erechtheum with its Porch of Maidens & the Temple of Athena Nike (goddess of victory). We see the Temple of Zeus, Theater of Dionysus, the Agora (where Socrates taught) & the well-preserved Theseum. There is a city tour featuring the Parliament House and a stop at the Panathenaic Stadium, built in the 2nd century AD. It is the built entirely of marble. It hosted the opening ceremonies of the first modern Olympics in 1896. Tonight, there is a dinner with local fare.

Day 3: ATHENS, CORINTH CANAL, MYCENAE, EPIDAURUS, NAUPLIA
We stop at the Corinth Canal. Today's highlights include Mycenae, where excavations reveal splendors described by Homer. We see the Beehive Tombs (known as the Treasury of Atreus), the Lion Gate & Agamemnon’s Palace. We visit the museum before driving to Epidaurus for a tour of the 2300-year-old open-air theater. We spend the night in Nauplia.

Day 4: NAUPLIA–OLYMPIA.
We drive through the Arkadian Mountains and spend the afternoon in Olympia, where athletes competed. We walk through the ruins of the Gymnasium and the Temples of Zeus and Hera. We visit the museum to see Praxiteles’ Statue of Hermes. There is a cooking demonstration.

Day 5: DELPHI.
We journey to Delphi. We tour Apollo's ancient sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. We visit the Archeological Museum. The Charioteer is a 5th century BC bronze statue. We dance the sirtaki from the movie Zorba the Greek.

Day 6: DELPHI–ARACHOVA–ATHENS.
We leave Delphi this morning and drive back to Athens, stopping at the town of Arachova located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. There is a panoramic view. We stroll around the town admiring the architecture before arriving in Athens. Tonight, we savor Greek delicacies with an optional dinner at a local restaurant.

Day 7: ATHENS.
The trip ends with breakfast. Transfer takes me to the airport.

The Greek Orthodox Church is the eastern wing of Christianity.
My 4th trip to Europe was my first good one.
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I fly ?. I change planes at ? in ? and fly to Athens. There are 3 airports, and I fly 4 times. Check in at the airlines desk 4 times. Get 4 boarding passes and look at the blue departure boards for flight numbers and gate numbers. I have done this before and can still do it. Stay calm, but hustle. I will get help when I need it.

FLIGHT ITINERARY
Depart
Arrive

Depart
Arrive in Athens
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RETURN
Depart Athens
Arrive

Depart
Arrive in Nashville,

I make my way to Vanderbilt, put my paper on my site and send it out.


Coordinates:

Athens 38 degrees North
Athens 24 degrees East


2020

I flew to Hong Kong, October 31, 2016, for 4 days and 3 nights. I flew American Airlines and changed planes in L.A. going and coming. My host (Lyona) from Globus/Monograms met me.

Hong Kong is an island city off the Chinese mainland. It was a British colony for 156 years except during the Japanese occupation in World War II. The Harbor's location on the South China Sea is what attracted the British. The Hong Kong archipelago has 260 islands. Lantau is the largest.

With a population of 7 million, Hong Kong is a Chinese Manhattan. Hong Kong Island is across the Harbor from Kowloon (Cow-loon). That tall skyscraper is the International Commerce Center. The currency is the Hong Kong dollar.

Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1997. It is a Special Administrative Region under "one country, two systems." Lyona said there were still about 25,000 British.

Both Chinese and English are official languages. Road signs are in English, and cars drive on the left side. Hong Kongers love to shop and dine.

The Chinese have no alphabet. Written language consists of characters, lines and squares. Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong.

Lyona escorted me up Victoria Peak to see the city and the Harbor. The Peak and the Harbor were named after the British queen.

I was given a sampan boat ride, and we passed the Jumbo Floating Restaurant. We drove through Wan Chai, the red light district in "The World Of Suzie Wong." We stopped to enter the hotel. Of course, it looked nothing like it did in the movie.

Lyona knew about Elvis Presley, and we sang "Love Me Tender." She helped me check into the hotel in Kowloon. The Chinese people I encountered were polite and accommodating. They had thick black hair.

I went to Big Buddha on Lantau Island. It is a gigantic statue! 20% of Hong Kongers are Buddhists. I befriended an Australian couple, and we had lunch in the Buddhist monastery.

I had heard rumors about Hong Kong food. The only bad food I got was the Shanghai noodles. They were rubbery, and I could not eat them.

I watched Fox News in the hotel. Donald Trump was on the verge of winning the 2016 presidential election.

Nearby Macau was a Portuguese colony. Called the "Vegas of the East," it is the only place in China with legalized gambling.

Latitude lines run north and south from the equator. Longitude lines (meridians) run from the North Pole to the South Pole. The Prime Meridian is in Greenwich, England, a London suburb. From Greenwich, east and west longitude lines run 180 degrees around the globe to meet at the International Date Line.

Hong Kong latitude 22 degrees N
Hong Kong longitude 114 degrees E
Nashville latitude 36 degrees N
Nashville longitude 86 degrees W
Louisville latitude 38 degrees N
Louisville longitude 85 degrees W

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I flew to Denver, August 10, 2013, with Southwest Airlines. I checked in and got my boarding pass. I had a compact waiting from E-Z Rent-A-Car. I had my Mastercard, drivers license & proof of insurance.

I checked into the Ramada on E. Colfax and hung out on the 16th Street Pedestrian Mall. There were shops and restaurants. I bought a T-shirt at the Hard Rock Cafe and told the girl about my song, "Save The Planet."

17th Street is Denver's financial district, the Wall Street of the West. The Cash Register Building is the Wells Fargo Center, and I walked around it. I wanted to tour the Denver Mint, but settled for seeing it out of the corner of my eye as I was leaving town.

Denver was founded in 1858. It is called the Mile High City because it is 5280 feet above sea level. I-25 runs north and south. I-70 runs east and west. Denver is in the Mountain Time Zone.

The Rocky Mountains have minerals, and mining is important to Denver's economy. There are companies related to energy and the space program.

I drove north to Estes Park, the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. The Perseid meteor shower was clouded out. I cannot control nature! I found the observatory and listened to a lecture about planets. I slept in McDonald's parking lot.

I toured Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove Trail Ridge Road to the Continental Divide, the point from which water flows east into the Atlantic and west into the Pacific. I stood at the sign marking the Divide.

We stopped at the Alpine Visitors Center 12,000 feet up. It was windy and chilly. Thunder and lightning were in the distance.

Trail Ridge Road is 48 miles long, the highest paved road in the country. Our guide talked geology: glaciers and moraines. Moraines are debris left by glaciers. He spoke of tree lines and tundra. Tundra is treeless.

I stayed at the Discovery Lodge in Estes Park. I watched Little Big Town host the CMA Music Fest. I ended up seeing them in concert 3 times.

I drove by the Stanley Hotel, built by F.O. Stanley of Steamer fame.

From Estes Park, it is an hour and 20 minutes back to Denver. I dropped the car off, checked in at Southwest, found my gate and flew to Nashville.

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Chicago June, 2011
Michael and I drove to Chicago for a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. The Yankees won 4-3. They have won 3 out of the 5 times we have seen them. We found Wrigley Field on the north side of town after cruising by Sears (Willis) Tower and Lake Shore Drive. It was good being on the road with my son.

It was Michael's idea to go to Chicago, which surprised me. By 2020, this once great city had become the murder capital of the United States.


Chicago November, 1974
I drove to Chicago to see The Guess Who. It was weird because the concert was in an auditorium and somewhat formal. I lit a cigar, and the usher came and made me put it out. I saw The Guess Who 3 times. Their music inspired me to return to school and get my degrees.


Chicago June, 1966
My cousin and I were talking after watching The Avengers on TV. We got the idea of driving to Chicago and took off in the night. In Chicago, we drove along Lake Shore Drive and saw State Street. We saw an old fashioned burlesque show, then ran out of ideas and headed home. One must have a mission if he is to travel. I had read Theodore Dreiser's novel, "Sister Carrie," about a girl who went to Chicago to find work. Chicago sits on Lake Michigan.

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