June 1, 2005
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Info below taken from LittleEgypts site. We would love to have some of our Xanga friends meet up with us while we are in the United States. Check out the schedule below. There will of course be some changes between now and nearer the time. Terry
You might call this a potluck
AND
I’m Bringing the PineApple
This is the schedule so far and, right now, it is subject to some change, meaning we still have some days/dates to work out. All changes are worked out between Terry the PineApple and myself. Suggestions are welcome but the final word stops here.
If you as a Xangan and would like to meet Terry and are close to any of the things we have planned, you are welcome to become a part of his visit. (In general, I am speaking of … Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Ohio and Rockford, Chicago, Gallena, Illinois. We will be driving through Indianapolis and stopping at an old steel diner for lunch. We have to eat and you may still be on our way. You could meet up with us for a meal just off the driven route.). I have not as yet ordered our tickets for Tecumseh but will be doing so very soon. If you want to pay my paypal account with ticket money for that outdoor drama so we can buy seats together, (all reserved) I will work with you. I am including links to scheduled events. You have to work with me to be a part of some of them, sitting with us etc. Please email to me, your intents so you are expected. A Pot luck is, more or less, in the works and if you would like to be a part of that, it will be in my sister’s home in Rockrord, Illinois. NO SMOKING OR DRINKING is the rule. You will have to email me for information. I will update this as I know more.
The flights Origin Destination Flight Departure Arrival Class GATWICK, LONDON HOPKINS INT, CLEVELAND CO 67
08/31/2005 11:55 AM 08/31/2005 03:20 PM COACH HOPKINS INT, CLEVELAND NTH KENTUCKY, CINCINNATI CO 3793 08/31/2005 05:00 PM Arrival time Cincinnati … 08/31/2005 06:09 PM COACH NTH KENTUCKY, CINCINNATI NEWARK LIBERTY INTL, NEW YORK CO 4399 Departure time Cincinnati … 09/14/2005 02:52 PM 09/14/2005 04:54 PM COACH NEWARK LIBERTY INTL, NEW YORK GATWICK, LONDON CO 28 09/14/2005 08:30 PM Arrives London … 09/15/2005 08:30 AM COACH
Wednesday August 31, 2005
6:30 PM Greater Cincinnati Airport Pick up Terry http://www.cvgairport.com/
The visit with Jim Heald is up in the air and probably not going to happen so (if Jim is available the plans for September 1 will change.) …
Food … where … Bob Evans the Kings auto mall area , quick, easy, on the way home, and good food Sleep … Our house, might be 11 or later before we are home, flight schedules are the pits.
Thursday September 1, 2005 Cincinnati area
1- Loveland Castle, Photos and an all American McDonalds breakfast at a picnic table or maybe Lake Isabella or maybe both.
2- Riverboat Cruise http://bbriverboats.com/ … http://bbriverboats.com/public2005.html Lunch Buffet Cruise Selected Mondays-Saturdays, Noon – 2:00 PM Climb aboard for a 2-hour cruise featuring games, entertainment and a delicious buffet. Buffet includes salad buffet and braised sirloin beef tips, mashed potatoes, hand rolled chicken and vegetable wraps with much more. Adults$26.95 Seniors $25.95Children $14.95(General seating) Adults$30.95 Seniors $29.95Children $18.95 (Preferred seating)
*On this cruise we have the ability to sell tickets that do not include the lunch buffet. There is plenty of seating on the outside decks to watch the river go by and after the meal is served, you are invited to join in the entertainment. This is a great value!! Adults$15.00 Seniors $15.00Children $9.00 (General seating)
3- Drive the Cincinnati Sites for Photographs … Terry has seen many museums, our time is limited as well as our pocket books. Americana is what I am striving for as that is what he wants to see. The Diner on Sycamore is closed but we can take photos and, we will dine at an old diner on the drive towards Rockford. Route 40 is peppered with Diners from East to West. Skyscrapers, Riverboats, American Indian lore, old steel diners with Neon lighting is what he and we have in mind. The list of Indiana diners, CLICK HERE Maybe you will have some ideas.
Photo Opportunity … Cincinnati Art Museum and Taft Museum and Music Hall, Mount Adams and Eden Park, Spring Grove 40 miles of road Cemetery, The Cincinnati Zoo
Quiet evening with a good movie and a snack or one of my great hamburgers.
Friday September 2, 2005 Breakfast on the drive towards …
1- Adena … http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/adena/ … http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/adena/
#hours ADMISSION FREE OHS MEMBERS ADULTS $7.00 STUDENTS $3.00
2- meals
3- Tecumseh … http://www.tecumsehdrama.com/
MAKING A RESERVATION IS EASY! CHOOSE FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: ON-LINE with VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, or AMERICAN EXPRESS. CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE after March 1, 2005 at Toll Free (866) 775-0700 or Local (740) 775-0700 THE BOX OFFICE ACCEPTS VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, or AMERICAN EXPRESS WRITE TO: TECUMSEH! ATTN: RESERVATIONS P.O. BOX 73 CHILLICOTHE, OH 45601-0073 – Please include date of performance, number of adult/child tickets, contact name, address and phone number and payment in full with check or money order. SHOW DATES FOR 2005 June 10 – September 3 Monday – Saturday Performance begins at 8:00 PM FOR RESERVATIONS & INFORMATION CALL: After March 1st Toll Free (866) 775-0700 Local (740) 775-0700
TECUMSEH! TICKET PRICES Monday – Thursday: Adult – $ 16.00, Child (10 & under) – $ 8.00 Friday & Saturday: Adult – $ 18.00, Child (10 & under) – $ 9.00 NOT recommended for children under the age of 6 due to violent content and loud battle scenes. ALL SEATS ARE RESERVED. Advance payment required for ALL performances. All tickets will be held at the box office. REFUNDS or EXCHANGES must be made by 6:00 PM on the BUSINESS day BEFORE your scheduled performance date. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR RAIN POLICY AND CAMERA POLICY! The Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheatre is a Pet Free facility. The possession or use of alcohol, illegal substances, and/or firearms is prohibited at all times. — ORDER TICKETS ON-LINE —
Motel for the night …
Saturday September 3, 2005 Our drive towards Rockford, Illinois will be long. From Cincinnati straight thru its 8 or more hours. We are farther NE in Chillacothe and so it will be longer. We will be stopping for meals, looking for old Steel Diners and photo opportunities for that Americana feeling. I remember a lot of it, I was raised just up a hill from an old Diner and a favorite thing was to eat there. We will also need some leg stretching. Rockford will be late that night I am sure of it.
Sunday September 4, 2005
An EDIT, MOVING THE TRIP INTO CHICAGO, TO THE 11TH AS, WE HAVE ALL DECIDED WE WILL NEED A DAY OF REST AFTER THE DRIVE TO ROCKFORD AND PREVIOUS OUTTINGS.
Monday, September 5, 2005 … Not sure what today will bring as we decided to rest on Sunday. This day may have some planning changes. We will be thinking about it and edit as necessary. So far, thinking we need a bit of quiet today so will be staying closer to home, doing some American cooking and some movie watching and a little computing. If the powers that be can see it clear, a potluck at Bunhilda’s house for any Xangans who can find their way there. Write to me people ….
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 … Galena, Illinois … Terry wants shops so this is the place … http://galena.com/ http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g36022-Galena_Illinois-Vacations.html
Nauvoo … Not sure we can make this stop but it is a thought http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Illinois/Nauvoo-779224/TravelGuide-Nauvoo.html
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Boy oh boy, shoot me someone, I almost forgot this one. TODAY IS TERRY’S BIRTHDAY SO, THAT MEANS SOME KIND OF SPECIAL DAY. What should we do to celebrate Terry’s birthday. Actually, I have a few plans but forgot I had them. Where will this birthday take place? I am not sure about that one, yet. I will be working on it ……………
Friday, September 9, 2005
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
1- Drive from Rockford to Chicago, meals on the way and while there.
2- Lake Shore Drive and beach for photography. We can only do one beach and if someone is familiar with these that are listed, we want a good view of the great lake and good photography opportunity. I would appreciate a guide dog comment concerning what might be the best place to take Terry to see what we can see of a Great Lake and maybe a food guide as well. Chicago area is a one day thing as we have other plans as well. Money is a consideration. We do have limits but we trying for a really good experience for Terry and ourselves. Help up out, give us the pleasure of your company, contact us.
Chicago Lakefront http://centerstage.net/other/chicago-lakefront.html Chicago Tel: (312) 742-7673
31st Street Beach Chicago Lakefront Evanston North Beach Evanston South Boulevard Beach Foster Ave. Beach Hollywood-Ardmore Beach Jarvis Beach Montrose Beach Rentals / h2ofun.com Montrose-Wilson Beach Oak Street Beach Ohio Street Beach Osterman Beach
Sears Tower Skydeck http://centerstage.net/recreation/sears-tower.html tickets … Pricing is $11.95 for adults (12-64); $9.95 for seniors 65+; $8.50 for kids between 3 and 11; and free for the really little tykes.
233 S. Wacker, Chicago Tel: (312) 875-9696
http://greenmilljazz.com/poetryslam.html
Monday, September 12, 2005 Leaving Chicago area today and headed back home towards Cincinnati. Terry flies out in 2 days.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Rest, relax, talk, watch some movies. I know we will be tired but think we will be filled up with some good times. A meal out today, where?
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 … Terry flies out of Cincinnati Airport 09/14/2005 02:52 PM back to England
This Xangan PearlBamboo would like to see this Xangan SoonAQuitter meet Terry but donations are needed to pay for necessities. If you would like to help the meeting, please visit PearlBamboo site.
Terry’s book “Bubble and Squeak”, CLICK HERE. A lovely little book put together by another Xangan, The Queen Of Swords. NO MESSING AROUND, CLICK HERE for the purchase page. Seventy plus pages of some of the most unusually insightful poetry by Xanga’s own LordPineapple.
Regards to all,
LittleEgypt aka Becca
Comments (21)
Sounds Busy. And fabulous
Wow! I suppose you can sleep when you get back home.
Visit some churches while you are here? Try some fundamental Bible ones as well as the more orthodox types you are familiar with? wish you could visit the New England state as well as the southern coast and Florida. Have a wonderful wonderful time. Take a pillow for the roadtrip?
What an incredible trip! I know you will all have an awesome time!
Cheers!!
Now that is an itinerary. I will stick with you thru Chicago and then I will have to go home to rest. That was a good comment about taking a pillow and you’d better fasten your seat belt every time you are car-bound for they are fining anyone not wearing one. Oh, and bring a tight fitting hat for the there is a good reason to call Chicago the “Windy City”!
This is very exciting. I’m happy for you.
So, September 11th, huh? Ok, quite the date.
And if all else fails, hug a lamp post!!! No, not at Becca’s…in Chicago, silly.
hi terry and becca.
here are some thoughts – this is long, you can always remove it from comments if you like – i just got started here and kept on with it….
the name “windy city” came not from the wind, though there is some, and i should know as i live one block from the lakeshore just south of evanston, in the only north chicago area where the beach is not separated from the populace by lake shore drive, and the wind tunnels from the lake and gets me on the corner in winter, but from the windbag nature of chicago politicians.
there is a beach just north of the loop – so called because there is an el track that loops around the core of downtown – just after you drive north from the look on michigan avenue to see the “magnificant mile” - home of george jenson, chanel, bulgari, marc jacobs, escada, lord and taylor, nordstroms, henri bendel’s, tiffany’s, burberry’s, brooks brothers, the gap, crate and barrel, crabtree and evelyn, assorted hotels and a few more mundane businesses, not to mention the famed water tower, one of the few buildings to survive the chicago fire – called, if memory serves, as i never pay too much attention to the names of things, belmont harbour (i will make inquires between now and the fall as to its correct name….). it curves ever so slightly out from the straight line north from the loop and gives one a wonderful panoramic vista — east to michigan, which you can’t see, of course, north to whatever, and south with the curve of the sand and all the big tall buildings. that is where i take guests who want to p hotograph more than a wide smooth clear expanse of water and want some of the drama of the city along with it.
i don’t know if you are interested in architectural history at all, but if you are even a little - there are wonderful things, very roaring midwestern american big city things, to notice. chicago was where the steel girded skyscraper developed and took off. there is a 3-4 block long place in the loop, full of old buildings, chicago being one of the american cities that had the sense not to completely demolish the down town and fill it with glass boxes and postmodernist trivia, tat is in itself a history tour.
towards the northern end of this is the monadnok building, by burnham and root, the largest office building in the world when it was built in 1891.http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Monadnock_Building.html where building is what, 16 stories, maybe, and built with the old framing, steel used for interior walls and windows, with resulting 6 foot wide load bearing walls at the base. there is a later addition on the north, is it the north?, where steel girders are used as framing and support. there are no more massive load bearing walls at the base and the windows widen out and reflect the bigger space between supports
south of the monadnoc is the fisher building, http://www.wcities.com/en/record/150,10753/35/record.html and http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/F/FisherBuilding.html, a “skyscraper” in yellow brick, with bay windows, as the architects of the time, not totally familiar yet with things, felt that the rows and rows of bays would break up the wind as it struck a high tall building. they soon learned better, but there is a period from the late 1800′s to the early 20oth century, where it was common to use this in the construction of a stepped facade. the play of the late afternoon sun on the rhythmic surfaces and glass of this building is one of my all time favorite things in the city, but then i’m weird.
once one grasps the widening out of windows, in some cases almost to the width of the rooms inside, which articulate the underlying framing – here it is, totally characteristic – http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/G/GageGroup.html - it acts to decode the history of a lot of multistory buildings throughout the city. you can see it again here, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/destinations/Chicago/Architectural_Walking_Tour.html scroll down, in the wide windows above the famous clock on the carson parie scott department store, by famed chicago architect, louis sullivan. meeting “under the clock” is standard chicago, and has been for more than one hundred years.
the fisher points out another major characteristic of chicago arcitecture. after the great chicago fire, buildings were no longer wood. stone, yes. but as home of t he architectural tile/terra cotta industry, chicago may have more extant terra cotta covered buildings than anywhere in the US. lest you think that these are not encountered in everyday life, here, if you scroll down to the ones on pratt avenue are some in or ornamenting buildings within two blocks of where i live. http://www.stonecarver.com/gargoyles/terracotta.html – and gorgoyles are just the beginning. alot of the tile was just used for cladding as on the wrigley building – http://www.wrigley.com/wrigley/about/about_story_building.asp - yep, that building is made from terra cotta tiles, fooled ya.
many people just assume it’s stone.
I’ll be thinking of you during your visit to the US. You’ve got quite a busy itinerary planned! I hope you have a great time.
here’s what i think is one of the best possible beach views in chicago http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/~brukman/photo/2004/03/27-28/chicago/waterfront/- taken from a bit north just north of the magnificant mile where michigan avenue turns into lake shore drive. there is another possibility, and that depends on the day’s schedule, which is to go tot he area where the field museum is and the planetarium and look north to the city. it doen’st have that curve of beach but is effectivel. that’s the one i saw when i was 15 and in town on the way to compete at the national science fair in flint, michigan. terry, let me know if ou want the view with the water and the city/beach or just the water or the water and a straight line up intothe city – and also which one to stop at will be more clarified by where you are going during the day. the green mill, for instance, isn’t that very far north from belmont harbor.
Great post Clowne – I just wanted you to know that I am no longer posting on my Annies”Snapshots site. For reasons that are hard to explain, I am having to change sites. My new site is called Annies_Life! Please UNSUB to old site and feel free to SUB to new site! Take care and have a happy hump day!
hi terry. on a whim, i googled “uptown” the name of the neighborhood where the Green Mill, home of the poetry slam, is located (finally, i found a decent description (http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=479), and found a jewel of a website. http://mmneighbors.com/Entertainment1.html.. fyi, i live on sheridan road, 6700 block, while the green mill is on the 4800 block of broadway which turns into sheridan a few blocks south of my apartment) chicago is one of the few places left that identifies its urban territory by neighborhoods and where the neighborhoods have a strong identity and funcion as neighborhoods. ”what neighborhood do you live in?” is a standard first question when one meets someone. if you go to the section, al capone’s chicago, the streetscapes you see are not that different from what you will see today (chicago hasn’t torn down a lot of old buidlings) except for the car models. there are photos of the green mill’s predecessor in the al capone section and today’s sign is exactly the same as that which opens that section of the website….
the uptown theater http://www.uptowntheatrechicago.com is two doors north of the green mill, on the same block, on broadway two blocks west of sheridan road,(broadway runs 2 blocks west of sheridan and parallels it.)
in the 50′s the neighborhood deteriorated. this expresses some of that http://www.gaylords712.com/sungln.html - magnolia street is two blocks west of broadway, sunnyside 8 or so blocks south of the green mill, and the street where my ex moved in ’97, when it was still gang territory. of course, with al capone and john dillinger in the 20′s, uptown was gang territory from the getgo.
uptown is now gentrifying, but is still oneof the poorest neighborhoods in chicago proper.
I am so sad I won’t be able to meet you but you are going to have a fabulous time! I hope it will also lift your spirits.
As I said at LE’s blog, I’m sorry I won’t be able to meet up with you during your trip. There’s still a good chance of me being in London in November, however!
Terry, I sure hope everything goes through as planned, so I will be able to meet with you in Chicago, via Lily?!
I am interested in seeing Chicago myself, as I’ve only been around the southern edge, on way to another state!
O’Hare Airport is one of the busiest in the nation–Lily could tell you more about that. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed! Hugs, Laurie
Looking forward to meeting you some time while you’re in Rockford!
… and very sad, now, that I’ll miss the opportunity. Peace to you.
Dude you’re still online? How are you doing?
The Signature Of A True Human Is The Smile He/She Brings On The Face Of Others.
LonelyPoet.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, TERRY.
YOU’RE STILL VERY MUCH IN MY HEART.
PEACE.
Sorry…I live in Wisconsin, but would be fun to meet you….keep in touch.
Me