Pictures from Chicago

[FatDave]

Most of these are from gathering at the start of the route, because it got hard to shoot with my semi-crappy digital camera once the sun went down. These will probably kill my monthly bandwidth, but WTF...









The guy above I think was part of the marching band. He had a small battery-powered amp on his back which was wired into the bullhorn on his helmet. I didn't get a chance to hear him play, but one way or another, this dude rocks.




He turned just as I took the picture, but the sign says "We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators -Dick, 1/16/03". Not really Cheney, just an amazing likeness.













Tsk, tsk, such language...







Low shutter speed (due to darkness) plus shooting while walking equals pretty lousy pictures of us actually marching.







Did I mention the police came out to support us? I saw CPD, county, and sherriff's department. As far as I could tell, they lined the complete route (not quite 1.5 miles) and almost all decked out in full riot gear.



Now this was really interesting. Toward the end of the route, here was one of Chicago's finest with a video camera recording us as we walked by. I thought that was kind of funny, so I went back to take his picture. Not surprisingly, a lot of people were taking his picture. But by the time I got the picture, he'd lowered the camera. So I waited. Eventually he raised it back up. I was saying "smile! smile!". Then he did this...



Woohoo! Go me!