Oh yeah, totally great NOT meeting anyone at Strats!:jester On the way there I was going down 294 and saw a big cloud of smoke off to the side. I thought that a warehouse was on fire or something down there, but as I got closer there was a traffic backup. I was thinking, ok, gapers block...so I did the lane split. Something was up as the lane splitting was real easy since the traffic wasnt moving at all...when I got there, turns out some semi jumped the median into the southbound lanes, took out about 10 cars, then burst into flames. It was interesting watching the roaring blaze and then the fire dept putting it out when they got there. Only problem was they never opened up the lanes again. I then rode about a 1/2 mile up 294 the wrong way to get to a break in the median to make a uturn and rode back up to Ohare, over to 90, and made my way down to Strats to find you guys about to take off for Oddy's "checking the progress of road construction" ride:jester Nice riding with you guys, all the bumps and gravel kept me on my toes and held my attention so I wouldnt pass out from lack of sleep:twofinger