From Amish Country Ohio to Chicago

Ciao all,

didn't have much time to post in the last few days; I was in Amish Country Ohio on Thursday and Friday and then heading to Chicago for the weekend.

I would like to say something about Ohio... it is a gigantic farm??? there was corn and grass fields everywhere and I reached Amish.. that just become even more "intense".

still, Amish Country was kinda nice, even if it had the feeling that the part of their culture I was experiencing was commercialise and made "digestible" for me.
It was definitely weird to see people with that strange beard driving bugs, seeing all those barns built without a single steel nail in them but then everything else was just buying quilts, buying packed cheese (I thought it was an actual farm, but it was pretty much Ohio's version of Whole Foods), buying antiquities, buying wooden-furnitures.

After Amish I drove some 400 miles to Chicago, arriving in the evening.
I went from countryside to metropolis and moreover I went from loneliness to lots of friends! In Chicago I met some old time high-school friend and people from my American University.
Chicago in summer is always wonderful, lake Michigan is like a sea and the beaches, skyscrapers, bicycles make it all look like Miami.

But aside some nightlife, some deep dish pizza, some biking I had a Sunday on a (small) yacht. I must admit that it was great, the atmosphere of people having also their parties in other boats all around, the costal guard and Chicago Police scanning all over, the music, the distant beach and the sun made it look like some "Piranha" movie of early '90s. We only missed the drama, the backstory and we were pretty much a good 15 years older than classic characters in this sort of movies but everything was definitely looking the same.

Today I drive some 100 miles to reach Milwaukee and spend the day here. Cheese, beer, Harley is this what's Wisconsin is all about? More coming soon!

Brief parenthesis about the deep dish pizza: I will always consider it NOT to be pizza, but a sort of "pizza-pie"; a different dish which taste wonderful but it's not pizza. No way anybody can convince me otherwise.

My best friend for the next 6 weeks.. it's a KIA Forte, I will call it "La Forte" (Italian for "the strong one", feminine)

First 1000 miles done! in less than 24hours of driving..

..more pictures coming..