Chicago Architectural Boat Tour
I spent a weekend in Chicago during my business trip to St. Louis last November, taking a five-hour trip on a Greyhound bus (which is a whole, uhm, new experience all together) to the Windy City a week before I flew out. The trip, which is my second to the city, enabled me to explore the city more. I met my travel buddy +Ronaldo Villamarzo there, who drove all the way from Wisconsin. We didn't really have an itinerary so we only visited the places that we felt like it. We primarily went around the area surrounding the Magnificent Mile, where the hotel is located, and also to the Millennium Park. We also had the time to visit a museum, the Art Institute of Chicago (more on that soon). One thing that we tried though was to sign up for the architecture tour around the city - in a boat plying along the Chicago River. The retro-futuristic architecture of Marina City Architecturally Chicago is very diverse, and full of skyscrapers. The first modern skys...