The day before last, we rode about 62 miles to Glenview/Northbrook, Illinois, which is in the northern suburbs of Chicago. We didn't have a friendship visit, but we did have a presentation and dinner from a former JOH rider named Seth Klondar who gave us a good presentation on how to apply what we learning on JOH into the workplace and how to use it to help in our future job searches. It was pretty informative.
Also Kozak rode along with us from Glenview into Chicago yesterday so he met us the day before at the YMCA where we were staying, so it was awesome to see him again.
The following day we had to get up early to get out of the Y, so we just rode first to a Dunkin Donuts for coffee and donuts, which was pretty sweet. We then rode about 15 miles to the Neuman Center in Chicago on the north side for a friendship visit and lunch that was a lot of fun. After lunch, we rode all the way down Clark St. to our lodging: the Palmer House Hilton. The ride was cool because even though the street was busy we got to see a lot of the character of the city, but especially cool because we went right by Wrigley Field during a ballgame. It was sweet to ride past the stadium when it was packed and the streets were full of people. Also I was riding with Kozak and we went right past his apartment building. We're staying at the Palmer House, which is a five-star hotel, because they sponsor the team with rooms every year. The hotel, not surprisingly, is incredibly nice. We had a little free time in the afternoon, so I just relaxed and caught up on some of my journal entries. Then dinner was sponsored by Joseph Freed & Associates, a pretty big real estate developer. The dinner was in the break room at their office, which was right in the Loop and awesome. They had foosball, pool, and ping pong. I played foosball and was able to recapture some of my talent from college and only lost one game (by one goal).
After dinner I met with Kozak, Bill Kraus, Sarah Z, Mike Olson, and a couple other folks. Bill just took the Illinois bar exam yesterday so we hung out at his and Sarah's apartment
to celebrate. They have an awesome balcony with a great view of the Sears Tower and the rest of the Loop. We had planned to go out to the bar, but all just decided to take it easy and stay in. It was really nice to just have a fun, relaxing night with some old friends.
Today Bill and Sarah were kind enough to let me use laundry machine in their apartment (and their wi-fi) and I'll be going out with some team members and probably Kozak again tonight.
FYI, this is the eighth post I've done today (sorry again), but the blog only shows the last seven, so there's another new post if you click over to the Older Posts.
So far I'm loving JOH and especially this visit in Chicago.
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