Indiana Dunes State Park to Chicago: Total Miles: 55, Total Deep Dish Pizzas: 1
That morning, we left for Chicago, about a 1-hour drive from Indiana Dunes State Park. We had time-sensitive tickets to another Frank Lloyd Wright wonder, the Robie House (See also our Falling Water Fiasco here.) This time we left 3 times as much time to get there as we thought we needed in order to be on time, and were still only about 20 minutes early…gotta love van travel and city parking.
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Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Indiana: Total Miles: 106
Kalamazoo, MI will always have a special place in my heart, not only because it is the childhood home of my favorite New York Yankee, Derek Jeter, but also because of the ballin Walmart wifi we were able to bum in the parking lot as we nestled in for another night of reality TV in the van.
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Oregon, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan: Total Miles: 132
We left the safety of our friend’s front yard in Columbus, Ohio for the open road of Michigan. Goal? To touch the Great Lakes…
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In order to figure out what we really wanted we made a priority list. My top 2 demands were that there must be a bathroom and a shower on board….and Humz basically said he would live out of a cardboard box on wheels. We did however both agree that it had to be safe for our beloved fur-child, Lucy, and we would also have to work out a decent wifi situation. (But that would have to come later.) I also refused to have a composting or cassette toilet, and Humz would of course have to deal with all of the dumping.
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