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Who IS Richard M. Daley? Location: Chicago Haunted by this man (he welcomed them on the highway, provided a complementary newpaper in the morning, and greeted them at the top of the Sears Tower), Bryan and Leslie--who had the vague impression he had been the mayor in the 70s--finally asked a friendly Sears Tower employee: WHO IS THIS MAN, WHO DOGS OUR STEPS? As it turns out, he had been the mayor decades ago, and now his son, also Richard Daley, leads the city. - IMG 2348
Location: Chicago Leslie at the top of the Sears Tower (and it only took an hour wait!), in front of a lovely view of smog. - IMG 2350
Location: Chicago Late night train stop, on their way to Gino's for a dinner of Chicago's self-proclaimed best stuffed pizza. - IMG 2329
Location: Chicago, almost Pip boldly goes where no marble-and-putty-painted-like-a-hippo has gone before: Pittsburg (because the pictures are not strictly in chronological order). - IMG 2334
State Number Something Location: Ohio Ohio. - IMG 2335
State Number Something + 1 Location: Indiana Notice how the sky is silver. It's Always Like That (thank you, industry, for your sweet, sweet pollutants). - IMG 2336
State Number Something + 2 Location: Chicago Well, it's not quite a "Welcome to Illinois" sign, but Chicago's the only place anyone would ever want to go, so I feel it counts. Welcome to Chicago (the "toddlin'" town). Also, the first encounter with Mayor Richard M. Daley. - IMG 2312
George plays with weapons Location: Baltimore, Maryland Straddling a fake cannon in Baltimore's inner harbor. - IMG 2313
Location: Baltimore, Maryland Bryan and Leslie play on an anchor. - IMG 2314
Local Character Location: Baltimore, Maryland Barnes and Noble and the Hard Rock. Ah, Baltimore. - IMG 2316
Aquarium Location: Baltimore, Maryland They had a special exhibit of sea horses, which was amazing. - IMG 2317
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Location: Baltimore, Maryland - IMG 2319
Fun in the gift shop Location: Baltimore, Maryland So many pretty things to put on my head. - IMG 2320
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Lunch Location: Baltimore, Maryland At legal seafood. - IMG 2323
Location: Baltimore, Maryland At the inner harbor. - IMG 2325
Location: Baltimore, Maryland Where? Why? Who knows. - IMG 2326
Location: Baltimore, Maryland George molests Leslie with a view of downtown. - IMG 2327
The VW Dealership Location: Baltimore, Maryland We ended up waiting at the dealership for about 20 minutes while the nice VW people finished looking at the Jetta. When it was time to go, Bryan and Leslie couldn't find George. Finally, he was located in the baby play room. - IMG 2328
Location: Baltimore, Maryland On the way home for our nap, George detoured into a state park for a romp through a creek. - IMG 2287
Featureless Ocean Shot Location: Maryland What you don't see is that we actually took eight of these pictures (appreciate that we only posted one). - IMG 2288
Location: Maryland Okay, two. But this one has Bryan in the foreground, in case you forgot what he looked like. - IMG 2290
Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Location: Maryland Since we paid $10 to use this bridge/tunnel feature, we had to get our money's worth in pictures. - IMG 2291
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Location: Maryland Okay, three...but this one has...a mile marker... - IMG 2296
State #6 Location: Maryland Welcome to Maryland. - IMG 2299
National Cryptologic Museum Location: Maryland Our first stop in Maryland was the National Cryptologic Museum. Bryan would like you to know that he encrypted something on a real Enigma machine, which was terribly exciting. - IMG 2300
Location: Maryland Bryan with said machine. - IMG 2301
Propaganda. Location: Maryland Loose lips sink ships. You know who you are.