The Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago is undergoing some major reconstruction that started last night.
Normally, this would not impact our lives at all. This time, however, it does, because even though this expressway is no where near us on the South Side of Chicago, it's a main artery that we take to get ourselves to White Sox games.
Carol had this great idea that we should drive down to the park and check out how we should get there, coming up with alternates in case the traffic gets really bad, as they are predicting for the summer.
So, we spent the afternoon driving around the park, actually taking the Dan Ryan to get an idea of what's being blocked-off and how traffic is being funneled. I think we're going to be OK for Sunday day games. Forget Saturday games - we'll probably have to take alternates.
Of course, if we drove all the way down there, we had to stop at Grandstand to do some White Sox shopping. I think we were lucky - we got out of there without spending a hell of a lot of money. It could have been so much worse.
2005- End of Day 5
- Beginning of Day 5
- *nose wiggle* x 2
2004- Oops
2003- Still crappy broadband connection...
- *nose wiggle*
2002- My Life-Clock starts ticking again
- Radiation Therapy Chauffeur™ duty