Before entering Chicago, we had the fortune of dropping off Scromp in the burbs.  I was hoping we would have the same sort of luck during our stay in the city…perhaps a friend or friend of a friend who lived in the outskirts of NYC would have been kind enough to take in Scromp while we toured NYC. Instead, a friend told me the story of the time when he spent a summer camping on Long Island.  “There’s this free parking lot under the freeway bridge in Brooklyn on Meeker and Graham,” he wrote to me.  “I slept in that parking lot…