The Long and Winding Road

As we started the last week of our trip, we woke up to leave Chicago kind of late, as we wanted to let the rush hour traffic die down some. We headed to Lakeshore Drive to see Lake Michigan one more time, but it was again covered by a layer of fog, just as it had been in Milwaukee. So we drove on. The tops of Chicago skyscrapers in the fog. Driving south along Lakeshore Drive. That is the Field Museum we are heading toward. We passed through northern Indiana (more cornfields!

Corn The facade of the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD In 2025, United States farmers produced 17 billion bushels of corn on 99 million acres of farmland. Corn is the largest volume of all the crops grown in the US, and the US is by far the world leader in corn production. We saw it growing in every state we visited on this trip, except in the deep Southwest. We've even seen it in Hawaii, where they have ripped out almost of their sugar cane and pineapple fields to grow corn. We

After being in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, it seemed like it would be hard for any other place to wow us like they did. But the natural beauty and wonder of the American West doesn't stop with those two places. The Tetons Leaving Yellowstone, we drove south for the short trip to the Grand Teton National Park. These mountains are a true world wonder, thrusting upward from the prairie to 12,000 feet and more. It's hard to believe one is looking at a real mountain ra