Well, it’s not the first time I’ve been to Chicago and the city cer­tainly lived up to my memory of it.

The hotel was eleg­ant (although the room was a tad pokey com­pared to the oth­ers I’ve stayed in over the past few days) and the deep pan pizza I had at Gino’s was fant­astic (although I couldn’t eat a whole medium one — I only man­aged two slices!), just watch out for the buf­falo wings — they are hot!

I have also dis­covered that busi­ness travel can be good for you! In the weeks pre­ced­ing this long batch of travel and meet­ings I was suf­fer­ing from high blood pres­sure (I even had spots before my eyes — not a good sign). Now, with the excep­tion of being extremely tired and look­ing for­ward to the long flight home, my blood pres­sure s done and my vis­ion clear. I sup­pose focus­ing on one thing at a time is a factor, but I’m not a doctor …

Any­way, really look­ing for­ward to actu­ally get­ting home. Just one more day now — hooray!