July 7th, 2011 
Ralph
At the "What you talkin about Wills?" Tower Ledge
When RVing full time, you get to see some really cool stuff, no doubt. You also end up doing some things that are normally way out of your normal comfort zone.
Go cross country for a year alone with your family, in a mechanical contraption that you have no idea how to operate?
Uhhh, no problem…fear conquered.
But there are so many more….
But isn’t a big part of living a really full life experiencing new things, doing things out of your comfort zone and “stretching” yourself?
So in that vein, one if the coolest and most frightening things we’ve done so far was going out onto “The Ledge” at the newly re-named Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago.
It’s a totally glass shelf that stands nearly 1200 feet above the streets of Chicago. they just added it in the past few years and its worth the $45 family fare to get in to see it.
For someone petrified of heights (always have been…and spiders, but that’ll be another post on another day), my knees are still weak just thinking about it!
Check it out:
The kids were less afraid as you can see…
Alex and E chillaxin at 1200 feet above the streets of Chicago
Although the kids were thrilled by this high elevation adventure, we were not as much. But we are so glad we did it.
So when RVing full time, you end up doing a lot of things that you’re no so comfortable doing.
The good news is that once you stare down fear and “just do it”…the payoff is fantastic!
Post a comment below and tell us what you think? What fears do you have that you might want to conquer at some point in your life?
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You guys are nuts! Way to go Eli and Alex for not being scared!
Always been afraid of small spaces myself btw
EEEWWWW….still don’t like the glass floor…and you’re not gonna make me like it either!!!
No kiddin! I hated it too Auntie Nettie!
Hurry to Wisconsin Ralph!!! We nwon’t let Jennifer torture you anymore!
She’s making me run alongside the truck all the way to Wisconsin!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I was there with you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love heights, as you know đŸ™‚
Love, Mom
I am scared stiff of heights !
snakes too…
love,
Popster
PS WE LOVE THE BLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxo
I get scared just climbing a 6 foot ladder!
I feel nauseous just looking at the photos!!! I try to push myself to do things that I’m afraid of all the time but I don’t think I’ll ever get over snakes or bats. Although the fear of both seem to give me athletic super powers (of which I normally have zero) to run away when I see them.
I get those very same super powers running away from spiders.
Jen has to kill them all….
LOVED hearing your voices tonight, you’re all in my heart & thoughts:) I am trying to pay attention to my attention and make a book of word search puzzles for kids & a book of heart pictures (guess who is going to help me with that one:) HUGS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Still scared of heights and spiders, you chowda head. Glad you were able to conquer your fears. Great photos at The “What you talking about Willis” Tower. Classic.
Absolutely. And bear markets too…
[…] Unlike my dad, I LOVE heights and it is cool that you can see directly down on people who look like ants. […]
Can’t wait for the bungee jumping video!
That comes next….off Mount Rushmore!
I am excited to find this blog! We are doing the same thing and are headed into Chicago. Two questions: where did you stay; and where did you park? We are heading west to east and have found cities to be a challenge.
Hey John, glad you found the blog! When we went to Chicago, we stayed with friends in Indiana so cant really recommend anything there. However, we have found that the KOAs are by and large, a very good chain of campgrounds so we stay at those quite frequently. We stayed at 7 or 8 of them so far and they were all really good, although more expensive ($40-50/night) than other campgrounds. We checked the reviews for them online, even though sometimes those are skewed and filled out by owners or paid reviewers. Let us know any way we can help you. Thanks for the comment!