I enjoyed very much this journey through Chicago and the state of Wisconsin.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the architecture in Chicago (the first skycrapers of the United States, Tim Samuelson-the historian and architect-, the great fire of 1871, the appartment of Jo Anne Gazarek-Bloom), the hot dof Chicago style ( Douglas Shon called Hot Doug, the Portillo's restaurant, Adam Domingo explaining what is the Hot Dog Chicago style-beef sausage, mustard and some vegetables, no ketchup-), the Halloween (the buying of costumes. Masks and wigs-George Garcia and his store, Jeremy Bengstons and his amusement park-the big pumpkins,the pig race), the growing of cranberries in Wisconsin ( Edward Grygleski-the cranberries producer- , the water management, the sandy soils, the mechanic harvesting, Lisa Potter the producer and cook-the clafoutis of cranberries, the hundred recipes, the cranberry sauce for the turkey of Thanksgiving Day), New Glarus (the Swiss migrants, the chalets, the Swiss food and music), Mount Horeb (the trolls in the gardens, the Scandinavian migrants), the Polish Village of Chicago (Slawomir Budzik, the radio announcer, Daniel Pogorzelski, the writer and journalist, Anna hebal and the Czerwone Jabluszko restaurant, the melting pot ), andthe Lake Michigan and the strong winds ( Joel Gunnlaugsson and the ferry to Washington Island, the shipwrecks in the lake, Charlie Henriksen-the professional fisherman-,the return of the fishes),
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the female bikers Anne Zube and Sandra Miller in Milwaukee, with Vincent-the Boulangerie- and Jo Maffei-the Grand Park Packing at Fulton Market, with David J. Jemilo (the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, the jazz music, the reference to Al Capone), with Ben Hollis (the clothes shop, the antique shop and Montrose Avenue Beach), with Natalie Ortga and Jaimé Ortega in Oregon (the vegetables harvest, the drinking of red wine, the selling of vegetables in the market of Madison, Jerry Natalie's father also selling vegetables), with Patrick Johnson, the fireman (the ride in the fire truck truck, the parade, the Al Johnson Swedish Restaurant and the green roof and the goats), with Michael Fisher (the gathering of mushrooms in the forest , the cabin at the lake side, the eatingof the mushrooms and the boat tour on the schooner of Leslie Becker; very nice encounters with very kind American men and women.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the architecture in Chicago (the first skycrapers of the United States, Tim Samuelson-the historian and architect-, the great fire of 1871, the appartment of Jo Anne Gazarek-Bloom), the hot dof Chicago style ( Douglas Shon called Hot Doug, the Portillo's restaurant, Adam Domingo explaining what is the Hot Dog Chicago style-beef sausage, mustard and some vegetables, no ketchup-), the Halloween (the buying of costumes. Masks and wigs-George Garcia and his store, Jeremy Bengstons and his amusement park-the big pumpkins,the pig race), the growing of cranberries in Wisconsin ( Edward Grygleski-the cranberries producer- , the water management, the sandy soils, the mechanic harvesting, Lisa Potter the producer and cook-the clafoutis of cranberries, the hundred recipes, the cranberry sauce for the turkey of Thanksgiving Day), New Glarus (the Swiss migrants, the chalets, the Swiss food and music), Mount Horeb (the trolls in the gardens, the Scandinavian migrants), the Polish Village of Chicago (Slawomir Budzik, the radio announcer, Daniel Pogorzelski, the writer and journalist, Anna hebal and the Czerwone Jabluszko restaurant, the melting pot ), andthe Lake Michigan and the strong winds ( Joel Gunnlaugsson and the ferry to Washington Island, the shipwrecks in the lake, Charlie Henriksen-the professional fisherman-,the return of the fishes),
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the female bikers Anne Zube and Sandra Miller in Milwaukee, with Vincent-the Boulangerie- and Jo Maffei-the Grand Park Packing at Fulton Market, with David J. Jemilo (the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, the jazz music, the reference to Al Capone), with Ben Hollis (the clothes shop, the antique shop and Montrose Avenue Beach), with Natalie Ortga and Jaimé Ortega in Oregon (the vegetables harvest, the drinking of red wine, the selling of vegetables in the market of Madison, Jerry Natalie's father also selling vegetables), with Patrick Johnson, the fireman (the ride in the fire truck truck, the parade, the Al Johnson Swedish Restaurant and the green roof and the goats), with Michael Fisher (the gathering of mushrooms in the forest , the cabin at the lake side, the eatingof the mushrooms and the boat tour on the schooner of Leslie Becker; very nice encounters with very kind American men and women.