Rabbit Run Inn Sawyer

After driving for another 2 hours, it was 10 PM eastern time. We were on our 4th state of the day. I was beat and we decided to stay in South Bend. I've always wanted to see the University of Notre Dame, so was was our best chance. There wasn't much to look at for this time of night. Upon checking in, we crashed for the night.

We'll see what the mystique is all about in the morning.

... was beautiful, the groom handsome, the bridesmaids were whooohoo (how do you type a whistle?) and the groomsmen dashing and very cool! The roast porker was scrumptious, the music was current, bouncy and fun... and a good time was had by all!

After leaving South Bend this morning, Daniel and I went to the very bottom of Michigan and visited a little beach town called New Buffalo. It was a very nice quaint town and had a little beach that everyone was at. We had to get in just to say that we've been in lake Michigan, so we put on some running shorts (which got us some awkward looks) and jumped in. After we took some pictures and ate some lunch there, we booked a hotel in Chicago and jumped in our cars heading west.

... and we spent that time in our cars trying to get a little more sleep. After hurting my neck and back about 15 times, it stopped raining and we went and toured Notre Dames campus. It's really nice! It's super flat and pretty. We spent some time just walking around and taking some pictures. After a couple of hours, we decided to head even a little more north...

we leave the bustling metropolis
of south bend, indiana to embark upon the long journey home. some 2200
miles away my home sits, nestled in a canyon in the santa monica
mountain range just inland from the southern california coast. the
city of angels, surrounded by mountains and ocean, lies in wait,
embraced in the marine layer circling from santa catalina island.

... little face again. After briefly getting reacquainted with his Grandmother, Mary, whom I also hadn't seen in ages, we made our way back to Michigan, with a couple of stops along the way. I had to stop in Sawyer and see the house that Jon was born in and my stepsisters and stepbrothers grew up in when my pops was around. Not much had changed; they painted the ...

... great food, I ordered my favorite dish: a jumbo pile of crab that has been sauteed with carmelized onions and soy. Ohhh, so good. The noodle dishes are good too, but the crab is fantastic. I even have myself tagged in a picture I took at the restaurant as the crab. After dinner, the group (consisting of me, Matt and Geraldine) met up with a few others at an equally lovely hookah cafe. Before experiencing Samah, I would have imagined the only ...

The city is better than I remember it with quite a lot going on. I get sunburnt by falling asleep on the lakeshore which proves painful for the next few days, the tickets for the theatre that me and Lorna have prove to be hilarious. A rooting of male and female behavioural traits into caveman days - very insightful and strikingly funny at times. We get mugged ...

... Nazarene church we were staying at. It would of course end up being Puerto Rican National day and so the streets are crammed with a mardi gras style party atmosphere and we are the only white people in the midst of the festivities. Ha, I love this already although I think one or two are wondering about the sanity of my travel style!

... soap and a towel. Fewer and fewer of them would do that, you could pay something like $15 for a day pass but they have terribly changed their original calling-they don't want no tramps , bums or homeless. Next it was to the laundromat and I was set for another week.
I crossed into the central time zone and found a spot on an abandoned road near the Indiana Dunes and National Lakeshore for the night.