return

It was a gray, cold day in Chicago, and driving out of the city and down the rural countryside of Indiana (taking the route of a colleague, I didn't take my normal route which brings me through Gary and the mega structures of American manufactoring erected along the southern shore of Lake Michigan -- my first visit to Chicago was on a train from New York in the early 1980s and the conductor gave a description of each company as the train rolled past it).

We passed the melting snow as we drove home.