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TYOLD May 26, 2014: More Pigs & Random Tourism

I had planned on driving over to Dubuque, Iowa today to see a friend from high school (hey Patty!) but wound up not for several reasons. First, they were forecasting some bad weather for this afternoon and I just pictured myself huddled in a ditch somewhere next to a...

TYOLD May 25, 2014: Pigs

Sunday, May 25, 2014 More food porn of the pig variety. There’s this place in Chicago called The Purple Pig.  It’s on Michigan Avenue in the thick of things and it has gained a great reputation for it’s inventive interpretations of everything pork...

TYOLD May 23, 2014: Chicago Food Porn

Friday, May 23, 2014 Chicago day 2 started later than I had anticipated due to the aforementioned drinking and carousing the night before, but I still managed to get up and out in enough time to get things done. Stop #1 was an old favorite, Hot Doug’s, a famed...

TYOLD May 22, 2014: Upgrading

Thursday, May 22, 2014 Back to doing some different, just because I’m off to Chicago and felt like it would be easy to stick in my rut of what I usually do when I go to Chicago – drink and carouse a lot. So started the trip with something I have always...