We left Forestville State Park yesterday and drove 6 hours through Iowa into Illinois and stopped at a nice commercial campground in Utica (not a prison) so that I could do laundry as we had gone our 10 day limit and had nothing to wear otherwise. The roads were not good! We stayed mostly on two lane roads and they were so bumpy that two cabinet doors fell off and we thought something horrible had happened! They were not hinged doors so were easy to snap back in.
Towards the beginning of this trip we visited the Sleeping Bear Dunes on Lake Michigan and now after a three hour drive through the south side of Chicago, we have landed at the Indiana Dunes State Park - where they turned us away. But no problem, we went to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore campground and the ranger helped us pick out our site. All campgrounds are now full for the weekend.
This afternoon we rode our bikes 15 miles on the Calumet Trail which paralleled the railroad tracks and visited the park’s visitor’s center. On the ride back we rode along the lakeshore and enjoyed the cool breeze while watching the sailboats and yachts on Lake Michigan. We could also see the Chicago skyline across the lake through the haze.
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