July 13 - 14, 2002
I can't tell you much about Fort Wayne or Indiana in general, the time was just too short and moreover, we didn't do sightseeing but had a lot of fun doing something completely different :-) But let me start from the beginning.
We left New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday around lunch time by Greyhound bus… we were already travelling for 3 or 4 hours before we heard a loud bang! Our tire bursted while going with a speed of around 100 km/h! Man, I was kind of terrified as I didn't know in the beginning what had happened. Anyway, our bus driver obviously didn't care too much about the flat tire and continued the drive… not too long, though. After a few hundred meters we saw this big smoke cloud rising up next to the window… our journey was over as the second tire completely burnt (for pictures see New Orleans section). What followed were hours of waiting for help, hours of losing my nerves because we still had to catch 2 more connecting busses on our way up to Indiana. However, our "fate" was sealed, we missed all the connecting busses, had to wait endlessly for other busses and finally reached Fort Wayne, Indiana at 4:15 pm instead of 11 am. Our last day was dramatically shortened but Jason did everything he could to make our last day unforgotten. Thanks a lot for your efforts, Jason! You know how much we appreciate it and how much we enjoyed the time with you!
First, he showed us his brand-new apartment in Fort Wayne, then we drove on to the farmhouse where he grew up, where he spent his childhood. There we met his parents who are very nice for the first time. After showing us around a bit we travelled to his parent's lake cottage at Lake Webster, where we spent the evening (together with Jason, his parents and his sister Holly) and our last night in the States.
We spent the late afternoon / evening with swimming and tubing in the lake - this was amazing, this was soooo funny! Afterwards we had this yummy dinner prepared by Jason's parents (thanks a lot for everything!), followed by a nice chatting-session with Jason till the early morning hours.
At around 7:30 am the next day we left together to Chicago, where we spent the last hours at Navy Pier - together with Jason and Angela. At around 1 pm we left to the O'Hare Airport… the end of our trip, the end of an amazing trip full of interesting encounters and new experiences!
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