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So here I am in Chicago. After an overnight 13 hour bus journey from Niagara to Chicago, the plan was to get just one night in a hostel to get some shut eye as Ive had no sleep in the last 24hrs, it is almost impossible to sleep on the bus as not only are the buses generally alway full so you have to share your seat so cant spread out and limited in movement as the seats are quite close together, aswell as, despite it being warm outside the buses blast air conditioning all the time. The worse thing is that you have to make a number of stops and you have to get off the buses at those stops and there are also a number of transferes you have to make so all of that makes it very hard to sleep. So after travelling 13 hrs from Niagara (from 9.30 pm 29th sept-10.30 am 1st oct) I was in need of a good shut eye. However, when I got to Chicago, to my horror all of the hostels within the locality was full and I was looking at a $70 hotel stay. I refused to pay that much for accomadation so decided to spent the day at Chicago and catch the early morning bus to Miami. Thus, I spent from 10.30am 1st oct to 3.30am 2nd oct walking around Chicago to see what I had to offer.
Chicago is a huge city, suppossidly the 3rd biggest city in North America, and it also hosts one of the most amazing skyline. As im not a lover of big cities, Chicago had no real effect on me. However, in saying that I spent most of the day down the harbour area as they had a festival going on which was good.
After that I happened to come upon an Irish pub and thought as I had a few hours to spare I should go in for \'one or two\', as it would be rude not to go into a fellow celtic establishment.
Got back to the bus station to catch the 3am bus to Miami. Having not slept in the last 40 hrs I fell asleep at the bus station, to be awoken by the security guard who probably thought I was homeless, I dont blame him as I had been wearing the same clothers for the last 2days and probably wasnt looking or smelling that great.
So got on the bus at 3am (2nd oct) headed for Miami, due to arrive at Miami at 2pm (3rd oct)-thats 35hrs-arhhhhhh!!!!!!
So here goes.....arhhhhhhh!!!!!!
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