title	A Trip to Libertyville, Illinois, USA - 31st August-3rd September 2004
intro	A busy work trip with chum Nick C from work to Motorola in Libertyville, near Chicago in the U.S. doesn't leave much time to wander around downtown Chicago, but gives a couple of hours here-and-there to look around Libertyville itself, a rather quaint Midwest town in the state of Illinois, 40 miles north of the Windy City. It also gives the chance to fulfil a number of American clichés: a diner, a school bus and a fire engine...
dcp_7830	Somewhere over the U.K at 20,000 feet
dcp_7833	The greater Chicago area
dcp_7835	O'Hare Airport. It's just like flying around in Flightsim!
dcp_7838	On the first morning, a State Trooper scopes out the grey rental car (well, maybe he was just doing paperwork)
dcp_7839	Nick tests his laptop out in his room
dcp_7841	On the edge of Mundelein, a quintessentially vernacular church
dcp_7842	More scenes from around town
dcp_7843	Classic US small-town houses
dcp_7844	We take a trip down to Forest Park to see what amounts to a housing estate comprised entirely of mansions
dcp_7845	Another unfeasibly-large house in Forest Park
dcp_7846	The beach in Forest Park, on the edge of Lake Michigan
dcp_7848	Nick stands around by Lake Michigan, which looks like a sea
dcp_7855	A nosh-up at Mickey Finn's in Libertyville: a micro-brewery and eatery. The portions are so huge that we survive by splitting 3 starters between us for dinner.
dcp_7857	Breakfast at Elly's Pancake Diner in Mundelein. Nick has a 4-egg-and-sausage-fest, Nosher eats a huge heap of pancakes with pecan nuts and maple syrup
dcp_7859	The area contains several distinctive onion-shaped water towers
dcp_7861	Walking into 1000 Technology Way, and one of the Motorola offices
dcp_7863	Motorola's engineering offices consts of actual cube farms
dcp_7866	Motorola's canteen is about the size of a small town
dcp_7867	Inside Motorola
dcp_7869	Nick and Joel roam around in the sun
dcp_7871	The Ansell B. Cook home
dcp_7872	Nick stands in front of Old Glory
dcp_7873	Attractive small-town park
dcp_7875	Libertyville "Village Hall"
dcp_7877	A fire truck rushes past
dcp_7880	Another great U.S. icon: the small-town cinema
dcp_7882	The outside seating area of Mickey Finn's, our port of call for food and beer
dcp_7883	School bus, just like The Simpsons
dcp_7884	One of our final ports of call is a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts outlet in Gurnee. The doughnut line is in full swing
dcp_7887	Nick shows off his prize of 12 doughnuts
dcp_7888	The gates are full on our return to Heathrow, so we disembark to a bus on the apron. Welcome back to the U.K.
dcp_7889	A view of Paddington Station.