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My wildest vacation was not wild as you suppose. I didn’t get drunk or go party in the city night life. I did, however, see a whole lot of culture on my stay in the Windy City - Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago is, as many of you know, the site of most scenes from the Blues Brothers movie. It’s interesting to go and try to spot all the historic sites from the movie, including the street corner in which Mr. T was an extra during the car chase scene.

Chicago is home of the blues - and boy was it easy to find! There are tons of blues cafe’s and historical museums that highlight local and famous jazz and blues musicians.

If you tune in to the radio late at night, sometimes you’ll actually hear Dan Akroyd as Elwood Blues doing a radio show!

The city tour is really where you should head if you’re interested in learning about the city and seeing the sights. Many companies offer double-decker bus tours, boat tours, and walking tours of downtown Chicago. If you’re from a smaller town, you’ll want to take precautions of course. Many morally bankrupt people will try to scam tourists and out-of-towners by pretending to be helpful and then either cheating you or giving you bad directions. If someone approaches you offering directions in exchange for a tip, ask them to take you and offer a little extra if they’re willing.

Chicago is the home of many television shows, movies, recording artists, actors, and sports figures. It’s entirely worth the time to explore this city. If you’ve never been, you should talk to a travel agent and book a tour with Trusted Tours. They’ll help you find things to do in Chicago, like sightseeing tours.

Trusted Tours & Attractions has a promo going on right now where if you sign up for their newsletter, you could win an $150 iTunes gift card. Also, if you’re booking a trip elsewhere, and were looking for say, things to do in Orlando, or Things to do in Las Vegas they have those too!

One Week Left

It’s one week left until my girlfriend-equivalent returns from out of town. I’m supposed to meet her back in my hometown where she’s visiting a friend, and I’ll be picking her up and bringing her back here.

I’ve missed her a lot, and most of you probably don’t care - but I haven’t really been as enthused about my day-to-day without her around.

She makes me happy, and it’s nice to have someone around that you know cares about you and you can share your thoughts with. Friends are good for this too, although with a couple of exceptions a lot of them have been unavailable during this past week. My friend Marq’s been good to me, hanging out and watching TV and playing video games, keeping my mind off things.

I’m off work on Friday, which I plan to spend driving to my folks’ house 5 hours away. I may see her then, we’re possibly going to see Prince Caspian (the new Narnia movie) this weekend.

Vacation Season: Rent a Car

Rental cars take a lot of abuse! People always think that just because it’s not their car, they don’t have to live with it in the future, so why take care of it? Especially if they purchase that rental insurance at check out time. Renting a car should be considered a means to an end. It should be something to get you from A to B while you’re away from your own car.

Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t rent something nice and enjoy yourself, if you do have to rent a car. In fact, you should not only get something nice, but you shouldn’t pay a lot for it either. Always do your homework and shop online for your rental when planning your vacation, and plan way ahead to get just the car you want.

Advantage car rental is not only a website where you can preview their cars available, you can also manage every aspect of your car rental from the web. You can check rates, make reservations, see if they have locations near you and / or your destination, and there’s even a frequent renters program.

Their website details what discounts and specials are going on now, so check that out if you’re planning on going somewhere and need to rent a car.

The British Invasion, Redux

Let’s face it. The British are pretty cool. They gave us great television like Dr. Who, Rome, and actors like Hugh Laurie. They gave us cool music like the Beatles. They gave us cool clothing, movies, cars, spy movie characters like James Bond, and so much more.

They even take the razzing we give them about winning our independence so many years ago. But it seems all that is behind us these days, and now we all get along pretty well. So well, in fact, that we consider going to visit them a vacation! And now, so do they!

There’s a great travel company that I’ve written about before, Dialaflight, and they have tons of travel information about just about anywhere you’d care to take your holiday. Book your flight, hotel, car rental, weekend getaway, spas, resorts, rounds of golf, and more.

So I’m inviting all you Brits out there to go to their website and check out Flights to USA, and come visit our fair land! See the historical sites where battles were won and lost. Visit museums, fine dining establishments like Hooters, or take in an American football game. You could even drop in and see me for a cup of tea!