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2011-06-05T16:22:00

My father lived in Chicago for much of the 80s and part of the early 90s before he moved back to Australia, and I often used to visit him in the summer, so Chicago like all the places I have lived forms part of my identity. I hadn't been back to the Windy City since my dad left about 20 years ago though, and Lena hadn't ever been so I decided as a surprise to take her on a train trip. There was a little mishap with a train ahead of us, and we got stuck at both meals with a couple of hippies (mentioned in previous episode), but we arrived only about half a day late.

From the hotel we headed to the Field Museum of Natural History, where we saw Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus ever discovered.

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2006-08-03T06:30:00

These are the buildings my parents worked in when they were post docs at Yale. It's in New Haven, where I first lived when we moved to the states (incidentally the house that I lived, and the school that I went to have shrunk since those days!). These buildings are right near the Peabody Museum, where my Dad used to take me to see the dusty old dinosaur bones, and the rare book library where they have translucent granite walls. This was taken last year, when Mum, Don and I went to New Haven to look at the dusty old dinosaur bones at the Peabody, look at the Gutenberg bible at the rare book library, eat white clam pizza at A Modern Pizza, and of course to reminisce about old times.

The Twilight Report

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