RV Living – Things to do in Chicago (Ep 11: Keep Your Daydream)

Mmm, yeah. I'm having my blueberry muffin. I'm gonna let him exercise. He's doing a great job. Mmm, yeah. This is a good show right here. Nice and yes. Turn into space. 640. Let's see this fancy bridge. How many of these do we have to go through I wonder? Being on Google Maps, arrowing down the road. Remember when we wanted to see if we thought this was safe? Yes. And I was thinking to myself, I mean it's gonna be weird when we're, no I remember thinking, oh man we're gonna be there going down that road soon and here we are. Oh man there's lots of action here. Yeah. Oh yeah, right on. Lots of RVs, lots of semi-trucks, lots of goodness. That was easy. Yeah. You might not have to actually make reservations. You might actually just screenshot that and then wave it. We are at McCormick Place, downtown Chicago. Just got here, got set up. It seems perfectly safe, perfectly, perfectly reasonable. There's other buses behind me and there's trucks and semi-trucks and RVs. So we're kind of excited that this is going to be an option for us downtown. I'm just going to get these bikes off so that we can take a little ride into the city and have some fun. We are, oh look at that pretty boat taking off. All right. Okay, sorry. Squirrel. Okay, so yeah we are taking this bike path about five miles into the city and we're going to just see how the day unfolds. I mean I don't know if it's going to be like safe enough to leave your bikes in Chicago. I don't know about that. We want to make sure we keep everything safe. So we'll find somewhere cool to eat. We'll look at the water. Today we're going to just kind of like let the city tell us what to do. So we're going to take it easy. Take it easy. Let the city tell us what to do. Let me tell Carson what to do. Stop doing. Well I am super hungry but I just want to eat like more. Why can't we ride down the river walk? I don't think it's a riding situation, especially the way we're going. It's like a non-organized chaotic. Well how about we walk our bikes on the river walk? Oh that'd be nice. We'll walk our bikes on the river walk. Are you winking? No. No I am not. Here is what we're going to do boys. We're going to grab our bike like this under our hand and we're going to lift it up like this. Okay just like that. Okay it's going to be nice and even and then we're going to walk up the stairs. We went to Giano's and security said we couldn't leave our bikes where they were. So we ended up asking security where we should eat and they said Pisano's over on Madison and Lake. So that's where we're headed now. I heard it wasn't expensive. It looks expensive. Nice. Enjoy. Be careful it's too hot. Oh baby a triple. Could be the best thin slice pizza I've ever had. Decided to stay at the super sketchy place in McCormick. A place where all the semi-trucks and tour buses stay in the city and so we were a little concerned about the safety of it. So what we decided to do is overstay our welcome in the city so that we can drive into it at night time. Burrsville. It is freezing out here and we still have a ways to go to get back to the truck. A ways. Like everything we did earlier alongside the lake. Okay new driver. We're in Maryville, Indiana and mom's driving. Oh my gosh. She's awesome. Dad's the one that's going like turn here. No go forward. No turn there. No turn there. No turn there. No stop. Well what happened was we were headed out to go to grandma's gravesite. Would you please get your head in. I can't. I gotta just get some fresh air. God please help me. God. God I don't know if I'm gonna make it out of here alive. We're trying to find an enterprise so that I can sit over there. So as we walk through these gravesites and you look at all of these people and all of their names and the year they were born and the year they died and and then you see some people where the husband has died and the wife's name's there when there's no there's no death no and so it it brings up curiosity like what do all these people do? What did they learn? What did they? Hey I'm trying to talk here. So as you as we walk through these gravesites we see all these names it just it brings up curiosity as to what these people did. So what Trish and I decided to do is on our gravestone we would have a little url assuming that the internet will live forever and that it'll say www.youknowsomething.com so that people could look up like how we lived and what we what we did. So anyway so that's that's our that's our progressive funeral idea. Well you can't share our progressive funeral idea. Why not? Because someone will take it. No they should everyone should put a url on their gravesite that way you can say I'm gonna look that person up I'm gonna see what they what they did I'm gonna see what they learned. I said I was walking by I'm like I wish I knew about these people. Yeah. Because then I could like learn something from everybody. Yeah. At least everybody should put their greatest lesson they learned in life. Wish I had been a better driver. Wish I had been a better driver. Don't give your mom a hard time. Is that? I'm sure that would be it. We just got off the train and now we're headed to the museum to go look at some dead dinosaurs. He's a little amazed he thinks it's smaller than it is. Oh yeah. I told him it's actually the size of the school bus. It's named after the lady that found it. Oh okay. Her name is Sue Hendrickson. Okay. And after a lot of messing around with things uh the people who found it named it after her. Where did they find it? South Dakota. South Dakota. Yeah. Just there. All right what do you think of the field museum in Chicago? I really like Sue. Sue is good. Here's the deal to get into to get into the field museum it's 20 bucks per person. Uh we had told one student two kids it was 1.15. Okay so it was 1.15 for us to go basically see Sue because it's really cool to go see how they've constructed that t-rex. Everything else you can see at Cabela's. It feels a little bit like you're on a school field trip. It's really hot. Trisha's saying if it was rainy or really hot this would be a good place to go. That should tell you something. You could up the price of the ticket. It was really great you get to see plants of the world, animals of the world. You could up the ticket and go into like a three day movie or some of these other exhibits and maybe we should have done that but the fact is I'm not a huge museum person like walk around and look at stuff. I'd rather do something than then look at something so I think that's what I'm a bad person to get a review of any type of museum. Sistine Chapel was kind of cool but you know even that toward the end it's like all right let's go do something. We're doers. Just do it! All right what are we gonna go do now? Trisha loaded like 17 bottles of water in this backpack and it is so heavy. Three bottles of I feel like we're backpacking through Chicago and we're looking for our hostel. That's what it feels like. We're gonna go on a night ride so we need some sweatshirts. I have one clip bar, three bottles of water, a bible. There's no bible in there although I should put that in there. She threw a couple world books in there. I should put that bible in there so you could do some light reading. It doesn't say I can't complain in the bible. I think it does. No it doesn't. Hey check out that water fountain. We're walking through Grant Park. Yeah. And then we're gonna go see Millennium Park. Yeah. With the bean. Yeah. Love the bean. And then we just saw what was that fountain Tori? Uh Francesco's fountain. That was Grant Park Francesca's. I don't know. I don't know but we're following our little walking tour of Chicago and then we're gonna have hot dogs. Trisha's lightening my load. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Feels that makes a world of difference. What did you pull out of there? Took out the heavy stuff. What did you pull out? Whatever you pulled out made a massive difference. Wrigley building yes like the gum company built in the 1920s that is where Wrigley had their headquarters initially but Wrigley wasn't always a gum company. Originally they sold soap and they sent baking soda samples as like a thank you for buying the soap but the baking soda was more popular than the soap so they got rid of it sold baking soda and sent sticks of gum as a thank you for buying the baking soda. I think that that worked out pretty well for everybody because that was built in the late 1920s by a couple of architects who did not like prohibition uh the Burnham brothers sons of Daniel Burnham so they basically built a giant champagne bottle in the middle of the city. Green on the outside skinnier at the neck has gold foil on top. Hey hey look who it is. Look who I found. What did you think of that ride?