Exhaustion crept up with us, after several days without a break. It was a coffee morning.
We rode towards Chicago, through Gary, Indiana, where large attack dogs barked and slammed their bodies into fences in attempts to gain access to the two lone bikers pedalling by. As we neared the city, sheets of warm rain plummeted into the streets. Road shoulders disappeared and the traffic speed and volume increased.
In the early afternoon, we entered Chicago. We rode North along the Lakeside park trail for the last 15 miles, until we snagged a left and pulled into our hostel. We paid for a couple of beds for the night, took showers, and grabbed a cab into town.
Before leaving on the trip, Piper's mom had bought him a $50 gift card for a restaurant meal. Taking the time to sit down for a full meal was absolutely fantastic. We took the subway back to our hostel with aching, full stomachs and crashed.
