I'm getting to know the local Chicago weather patterns by now. This time of the year, a wind from the east is more likely to bring pleasant days, but a wind from the west or south and look out. Today is 90+ and tomorrow is supposed to be worse.
Oh well, I've been living on the prairie long enough to get used to the heat in the summer. Spend 40+ years in a state like Nebraska and you get to know hot (and cold and windy and tornado, blizzards and more).
I used to think that getting away from it all meant the mountains of the west in the summer. Wrong. Everyone hits the mountains in the summer. If you want to get away from it all 365 days a year, try the Nebraska Sandhills. Some counties there are as large as a small state and have a population of less than 10, 000. A crowd there is two people on the same road at the same time.
After fighting traffic here in Chicago, that would be nice.
Stay cool.
