Useless Traffic Reports

I've gotten used to listening to traffic at home (Detroit area) and I understand when they talk about areas in general, but I've noticed when traveling other cities it's way to hard decipher it. I'm traveling into Chicago right now, and while I can get around okay, the traffic reports are just gobbly-gook since I don't know all the roads and traffic slang....

This is a problem today since there appears to still be lots of flooding from the last few days of storms. It's beautiful right now though!!! Can't wait to get there!

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I'm Here (Finally)

So I made it to Chicago, even with the traffic reports not helping me any (actually I had two ways to go and choose the one that I hadn't heard any numbers mentioned so maybe it did help). The weather is awesome right now and looks like it will be great.

On the way in, I was starving and I headed straight for Standing Room Only to get some ribs. It was the last meal I had the last time in Chicago and they were delicious, so I made it my first meal this time around. Google maps on my phone helped me get here, I sure wish it had GPS to figure out where I am so that when I want directions and I'm don't have an exact location that it could figure it out for me!

I think I might take a short walk, and then go check in. I've got to get this car into the hotel parking so I don't need to deal with driving/parking any more today, then I'll see if I can hook up early with some of the people I'm meeting later on. I had planned on being in town hours and hours ago but yesterdays delays resulted in my not getting enough sleep and flooding delays encouraged me to do some shopping in Michigan City before getting too close to Chicago in hopes flooding would die down..

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