Hey, I say: make no apologies. If tourist-y means having a good time, learning some history, taking awesome photographs and listening to great music what’s not to like?

heh, yeah. i was mostly apologizing for not making it sound as cool as it was.

GAiL said:

Here in Manila, our three major trains are basically elevated. You see houses from above instead of like the one on your photo.

most of the CTA is elevated (hence being called ‘The El’), to about the height of the 3 flats that cover most of the city. there are only 2 subway lines (out of 8 total lines)

That’s it. Chicago will be in our itenerary IF we pull enough cash for our honeymoon