Chicago

Deserves the name Windy City. But it is much more than that. A city proud of its many achievements and the achievements of its sons and daughters in many fields of human endeavour. One of the cities my father lived in when he was in the States.

I stayed at Leong Seng, a friend of my sister and I from high school. On the first evening I went up the Sears' Tower, for nearly thirty years the tallest building in the world until the Kuala Lumpur Twin Towers pipped it by an 'ornament'. Amazing night views froms Sears'. The KL Towers must have a good view too but I've never been up there.

Also visited the Field Museum with its anthropological collections and dinosaur skeleton exhibits including 'Sue', the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Also went to the Art Intutitute of Chicago which houses Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and American Gothic amongst thousands of other priceless works. But the American Gothic was away on loan in Washington DC.

My highlight of the trip however was birds (what else?). Went to Lincoln Park north of the city, specifically the 'Magic Hedge', which was really a magic place for spring warblers migrating north.