After two days of rough seas, all the weather indicators and forecasts said that the route to Chicago would be very calm. This is the first crossing during which we theoretically should lose all visual contact with a shoreline - or so we thought. The waters were thankfully extremely calm - 1-2 foot seas and slightly hazy skies. As we left the Benton Harbor inlet, we could see the nuclear power plant in Michigan City, Indiana to the south.

About 15 miles out from Benton Harbor / St. Joseph, with the bluffs of the Michigan coast still in sight, we spied the first tall spires of the City of Chicago.

As it turned out, the nuclear power plant was visible the whole time to the south, as the skyline of Chicago got clearer and clearer by the minute. So we weren't so very alone at "sea".

Approaching Chicago and its bright green aqua-blue waters was amazing. The DuSable Harbor Marina is on the other side of a breakwater that encompasses several other marinas and moorings. Traveling in the breakwater we could admire the beautiful skyline of Chicago and take some satisfaction that we'd gotten our boat 2200 miles from home to the shores of the nation's second city.

As a happy coincidence, the Intellectual Property Owners Association was having its 2018 Annual Meeting on Monday and Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency - a 10-minute walk from DuSable Harbor. So, Roy did a walk-in registration and we both attended the Welcome Reception the Sunday evening of our arrival; and Roy got the opportunity to connect with former colleagues, friends and acquaintances from the IP legal world over meetings on Monday and Tuesday.