Today we continued driving east, skirting the mess that is Chicago and entering Indiana:

A few miles after crossing the border, we arrived the visitor center for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore:

B liked this chair in the visitor center:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received a badge and patch:

We drove down to the lakeshore.  It’s the first time any of us have been to the Great Lakes.  It feels like being on the ocean, but there are no waves, which makes the experience odd:

There’s one in every family:

We left the lake shortly before sunset and drove east to overnight at the Walmart of Michigan City, Indiana.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.