Going home

Our last few hours in Chicago and we took the Riverwalk, a promenade alongside the river, and a nice way to escape the crowds and the traffic. We timed it right to watch the Centennial Fountain shoot a massive arc of water across the river, which it does at timed intervals. The exercise is meant to commemorate the reversal of the Chicago River in 1900, which began sending all the city's wastes downriver, rather than into the Lake where drinking water came from. Whether this solved everyone's problems is a bit of a contentious issue, but it was an amazing feat of civil engineering at the time.

So, we get a flight back to the UK this evening - Chicago to Manchester, where hopefully our car is waiting for us. And so our adventure ends and what an adventure it has been. Meticulously researched and planned by Gordon, it has been brilliant. So many different places, so many different people, such memories we have . . . and an awful lot of photos!

Thank you so much to all who have followed us, I know my engagement with Blip has been a trifle erratic, for various reasons, but I will catch up with everyone when I get home. It has been great to have people following along - those for whom the places we have been are familiar but who have enjoyed seeing them through our eyes; those for whom our travels have evoked memories of past journeys, and those for whom this has been a way of seeing places they will never see for themselves. To me this is Blipfoto at its best. Thank you to everyone.