Road Trip Part 5 - Chicago and Virginia!

After we left Badlands, we didn't have a whole lot of other destinations on our agenda. We also knew there weren't many free camping options as we kept moving East. Since we didn't want to be paying for a lot of motel rooms, we knew we would be doing a lot more driving than exploring.

We made it through Minnesota.

Onto Wisconsin.

And then Illinois.

We decided to stop that afternoon in Chicago. We pigged out on our very first deep dish pizza.

The next morning we decided to explore a little bit of the city before officially hitting the road again.



Of course we had to see Cloud Gate in Millennium Park.





After realizing the insane cost of parking ($40-$60 if you stay for over an hour!), we speed walked back to the car and decided we saw enough of Chicago.

We decided at the last minute that we would drive to my mom's house in Round Hill so we could see her for mother's day. We had about 11 hours to go so we decided to just try and drive straight through so we could just crash at her house.



It was our longest day of driving but we were ready to be in Virginia!

We made it around midnight - we were so glad to get to spend mother's day with her!

It felt good to finally be on the East coast! Time to go get settled in Williamsburg :)