Safely here in sweet home Chicago

Arrived in Chicago safely late on Monday night 30 hours after we left Adelaide. Of course I couldn't tell anyone about it because once we were dropped off at the appartment I discovered that international phone calls were barred. There was no internet. I had no car. And there was no food in the house.

Of course we survived. A local call to a pizza bar saved us. And it wasn't bad pizza anyway :-P

Got the rental car the next morning (actually we had 3 different Avis branches contact me - I could've had 3 rental cars that day :-) Then had to find my way back to the appartment and the family. No real problems driving on the wrong side of the road - I guess it's only been a couple of months since I was last out here. Didn't get lost.

Went grocery shopping, spent a fortune, had a look around. Still nice weather, somewhere in the 20's. Jetlag not too bad.

Started work, some chaos. Starbucks in the company cafe helped. Chewed 4 days of work email, discovered that my domain was offline again, rang Australia to get a manual reboot. And since you're reading this, everything must be working again :-)

travel/chicago | 08 Oct 2004 | #