pdxval206: Pre-trip selfie and watching dawn break
pdxval206: I made it! Happy to be at Cedar Lake.
pdxval206: Cedar Lake Library - pretty nice! We visited often to check out movies.
pdxval206: Downtown Chicago from Belmont Harbor
pdxval206: After our sail we walked in the park along the waterfront
pdxval206: Intel Bunny Man goes sailing in Chicago
pdxval206: Tornado threat - We spent a little bit of time in the basement with no electricity waiting for the tornado threat to pass. When the all clear siren sounded there was nothing else to do but go to bed.
pdxval206: There's a heron on our pier!
pdxval206: That's one big flag--check out the link to the story below
pdxval206: New dog - Marsha and Jimmy at a rest stop on the way back from Manitowoc, Wisconsin
pdxval206: Fourth of July decorations
pdxval206: Dressing up the place for Fourth of July
pdxval206: Bindi with her ball
pdxval206: Moonlight shines on Cedar Lake
pdxval206: Fourth of July Parade - A chance for the community to display all their equipment.
pdxval206: The feast - Our festive table
pdxval206: One of the guys from Komatsu gets a ride
pdxval206: Fourth of July selfie - Mom, me and Marsha modeling our patriotic beads we acquired from the people in the parade
pdxval206: Can you see Chicago in the distance??? We took a drive to the Indiana Dunes one day
pdxval206: Contrasting days - What a difference a day makes! Top Saturday; bottom Sunday.
pdxval206: Bindi and Jimmy - Buddies
pdxval206: Cedar Lake sunset
pdxval206: Discover Columbus, Indiana - The sign says it all
pdxval206: Red barn near aunt and uncle's house - This barn was a stop on the underground railroad. If you were a runaway slave it must have been terrifying to be housed here as it is out in the middle of nowhere. Miles around of corn, soybean and tobacco.
pdxval206: My uncle and aunt, Richard and Karen - I hadn't seen them in about 25 years.
pdxval206: A house in Columbus, IN. You could have bought this house as a kit in the Sears catalog!
pdxval206: I found this in the parking lot!!!
pdxval206: Intel Bunny Guy gets his picture taken with the gnome at Hollywood Casino. We went there for my Mom's birthday.
pdxval206: The Illinois River by Peoria
pdxval206: Sailing in my aunt's little Snark sailboat--what a blast!