Location Taken: Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Time Taken: April 2008
What does it say about me that the one time I visited Navy Pier, the fancy tourist shopping-and-rides place in Chicago, I just walked through and left?
I barely even slowed down at all.
It’s not that I wasn’t willing to stop, I just didn’t see anything I found worth stopping for. Half the rides were closed because it was the off-season, and while the shops were open and well-populated, not a one of them appealed to me.
Admittedly, I dislike most rides, since g-forces go to my stomach, not my head, so instead of feeling thrilled on roller coasters and the like, I feel nauseous. And I don’t like having a lot of junk cluttering up my life. I live a frugal life not so much because I have little money but because I have little I want to spend it on. And the shops at Navy Pier tended towards knick-knacks and souvenirs and the like. Oh, and fast food. There were a lot of cheap dining places. But I wasn’t hungry.
I only visited because I was enjoying a long walk through the touristy parts of Chicago. I’d been living there for a few months as part of a college program, and figured I should at least see the various famous stuff before I left. I took the train to downtown, and walked semi-randomly until I had seen enough, and then I went home.
I ended up only stopping for photographs in the two hours I walked.
Perhaps touristy spots just aren’t my cup of tea.
