We woke up in Downers Grove IL, a western suburb, and drove downtown at the end of Rush Hour. John is a great navigator! We got to the Museum of Science & Industry just after it opened and we really hit the museum. We spent lots of time in their aviation exhibit, including a full Boeing 727 with cutaway jet engine and some navigational and operational exhibits inside. We also toured the U-505, the only WWII German U-boat ever captured (which happened 4 days before D-Day, and which was so secret no one heard of it until after the war). It was a very impressive display. It was personal to us -- John's grandfather Sorensen was a submariner (on the US side) in a very similar sub -- diesel-electric -- just a few years later, and my dad just might have taught radio operations to some of the men in the US Sub Hunter-Killer group who captured the sub! And he would have done it just blocks away at Navy Pier in Chicago.
No, Sue, I didn't take any photos of John kneeling beside a display. That's a family tradition we can let die.
We left after 3pm and got uptown for a tour of Mercy Home for Boys, a major Chicago area nonprofit who is a prospective client of NPA. We met some of the boys and saw where they live, eat and worship. John says he understands what it's like to be an abused boy, growing up in our home...
After Mercy Home, we headed north and west and are now outside Madison, Wisconsin. Tomorrow we head to Dot's, a mere 300 miles from here. So far we've done over 1500 miles, so we're looking forward to a short trip tomorrow and then a lot of walking.
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