this was our solstice sojourn to cowles bog by the indiana dunes. on the way you got to pay like three tolls on the skyway and it looks interesting in a dystopian way but it's a ripoff and on the way back we went the toll free way and mostly all you see is accident and divorce lawyer billboards. i was saying on the way if it was post apocalypse this landscape wouldn't look too different i bet except maybe the billboards wouldn't flash and you wouldn't hafta like nafta 2.0 pay the extortionate tolls.
in between was paradisal and we felt much better out of the city and we met a family with four dogs and three humans but otherwise were blissfully alone together in nature. why we hafta like nafta 2.0 live in the city well we like our culture besides the autopilots the flyovers and the haters and the surveillance and frankly we probably like the drama and even the thoroughgoing corruption we probably hafta admit is mildly addictive. 
but ah, nature, that's the ticket, and not just for the solstice. go, go, anytime you can escape the addictive grid!