Last days in Chicago (Jan 4th and 5th)

Our last days in Chicago were great. Yes, we got tickets for the Buddy Guy show. The show was sold out, but the venue sold us tickets anyway. I guess the Norwegian accent and the "stupidity" worked out just fine :-)

Friday 4th we took a taxi up to the part of town called Wicker Park. For you Norwegians, it´s the chicagoan Grünerløkka. We had some great burgers at Ear Wax Café, popped by Restless Records, and took a couple of beers at the Blue Line (a typical after work/business place, but nice. We get really confused of all these TV screens they put up in all the bars here, though). On our way to The Ukranian Village and the club Empty Bottle where we saw a few concerts, we stopped by the Rainbo Club, a really nice pub where we met some people from Madison, Wisconsin.

On Saturday Guro had a coffee with Donna Sue from Jam Productions, a big company in the music business, before we left Chciago and headed for St. Louis. On the way out of Chicago we tried to find as much as possible of the historic Route 66. These old roads let us through places called Romeoville and Joliet, and we stopped a few times at places like Polk-a-dot diner, a retro-like café with jukeboxes on every table.

We’ve now made our way down to St. Louis, Missouri. Here we find ourselves with in a summerlike weather, with a new record for highest temperature ever in January on this day! 72 Fahrenheit! That´s about 26 degrees celcius! Perfect for sightseeing. We’re here mostly to visit Magnus´ friend Tracey.