Chicago

City art, icicles, and gothic style buildings grace the streets. Icy winds have coats drawn tight, and wandering around finds boots in icy dirty slush. A ride up to the Sears tower, the tallest building in America gives a commanding view of the city, though the ride up is traumatic with an in house video that screams for a brick to be put through the screen. From this view freeway, cement and the vastness of this city become clear, it is like many American cities so visibly dependent on gasoline, cars and roads fill the vista.

Urban art, and trendy shops mask the turbulent gangster history here, this is where Al Capone and many others lived their tommy gun lives, and home to the drink known as the Mickey Finn, a tumbler laced with a knockout drug once drunk bye bye wallet.

Subways and snow lined surburbia, broken tooth shoe polishers and Starbucks coffee sum up a day spent wandering eyes cast upwards in Chicago.