I insisted on dragging Manfriend over to the Bean before breakfast and leaving Chicago. I figured we could find a place to eat on the way but no dice. And we had to wait for the restaurant at our hotel to open for breakfast. We had to wait til almost 9 for a breakfast place to open. Bummer on that.
We got on the road after breakfast and I made sure to get a picture of the Mc Donald's in the median of the Chicago Skyway. Basically you pull over into a parking spot and get some food to go. You can see the cars on the other side of the road too. Crazy.
I insisted that we stop at the Indiana Sand Dunes on the way home. It is a National Park and was only going to be about 20 minutes out of our way (40 round trip) and I figured, why not. It was beautiful and was what you would expect if you were at an ocean beach except it was on a Great Lake.
Of course I had to climb the one Dune that we saw. There were also lots of trails and stuff around the area to explore as well but I just climbed the dune.
We got kind of to the top and Manfriend said, "I'm just gonna sit on this grass here and wait for you." He was tuckered out. I will say that I think I had better footing barefoot than he did with shoes.
The view from the top was pretty and it was like a postcard.
We spent about 30 minutes at the beach. I put my feet in the water and man was it frigid. That probably explains the lack of people at the free beach swimming.
Driving into and out of the park/beach was a nicely tree lined road and parts of it had nice sidewalk/trails for running. Yes, I pay attention to these sorts of things.
Our last photo from the road was of the RV/Camper Museum/Hall of Fame type place. So bummed we didn't stop (not really but I bet it is actually interesting to find out more of the history of how they came to be so popular). We had a fun and hectic 2 1/2 days and then went up to the cottage for 2 1/2 days of relaxation.
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