{"id":1881,"date":"2010-06-24T03:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:49:36","slug":"chicago-to-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/chicago-to-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago to Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, May 8 &#8212; Day 15: Sightseeing in Chicago, Illinois (continuing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/25\/passage-across-america-begins\/\">Passage Across America<\/a><\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lunch with Dan, Lisa and Joella in Edgewater (AKA Viet Nam Town)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0241-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0241-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exploring Downtown<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0261-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0261-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dinner with Christi&#8217;s half-brother, Andronikos <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0190-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0190-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sunday, May 9 &#8212; Day 16: Chicago, Illinois to Plain, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visiting Adler Planetarium<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0292-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0292-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daytime view of downtown from the Planetarium, which is just a block away from Burnham Yacht Club<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0295-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0295-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spent the night at the Bettinger House Bed and Breakfast in\u00a0Plain, Wisconsin. Christi was sick upon arrival, and the owner, Marie, healed her with some homeopathic remedies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0472-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0472-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunset in Plain<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0457-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0457-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This is Part 13 of the Passage Across America series. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/schenectady-to-chicago\/\">Part 12 here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/joplin-to-st-louis\/\">\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/plain-to-keystone\/\">Part 14\u00a0here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, May 8 &#8212; Day 15: Sightseeing in Chicago, Illinois (continuing on the Passage Across America) Lunch with Dan, Lisa and Joella in Edgewater (AKA Viet Nam Town) Exploring Downtown Dinner with Christi&#8217;s half-brother, Andronikos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,2,397,419],"tags":[280,279,266,244,277,278],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois","category-northamerica","category-united-states","category-wisconsin","tag-adler-planetarium","tag-burnham-yacht-club","tag-chicago","tag-illinois","tag-plain","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13282,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/13282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}