donosborn: I started the trip off right, the night before, busting out my traded-for Pliny.
donosborn: So it begins. Hitting the road from St. Paul headed to IN Dunes.
donosborn: first stop - lunch at Ale Asylum in Madison.
donosborn: beers at Asylum
donosborn: Ale Asylum beer list
donosborn: Ale Asylum pizzas - ok, but not great.
donosborn: Chicago! Traffic every time we passed through here.
donosborn: Finally! Arrival at IN Dunes State Park and some homebrewed Helles
donosborn: 2009 Surly Darkness was the special beer for the afternoon.
donosborn: We climbed the dunes and found a nice wooden staircase. This is where we came back at night to hang out under the stars. It was a dark walk in the woods.
donosborn: sandy, grassy, open, very nice.
donosborn: We climbed the dunes and found a nice wooden staircase. This is where we came back at night to hang out under the stars. It was a dark walk in the woods
donosborn: sandy, grassy, open, very nice.
donosborn: Mike looked adventurish.
donosborn: nice spot to hang out.
donosborn: nice spot to hang out.
donosborn: New Glarus Dancing Man wheat in the sand.
donosborn: We spent some time just relaxing atop this dune looking over the lake before we walked down to the water.
donosborn: If you enlarge, you can see the Chicago skyline over the southern tip of the lake.
donosborn: Man was it nice! I can't tell you. It had been so hot and humid....
donosborn: looking north
donosborn: looking south
donosborn: This is that same deck only hours later, at night, in the dark.
donosborn: Dogfish Head Squall enjoyed on the deck at night.
donosborn: We had crickets, stars, beers, even tunes! Mike gets down. So nice out there!
donosborn: Morning of Deer Creek 1 show. Donuts, coffee.
donosborn: Kahns Liquor in Indianapolis. Great selection.
donosborn: Kahns Liquor in Indianapolis. Great selection
donosborn: camp at IN Dunes. These campgrounds are all about the dunes, not so much about the camping spots themselves.
donosborn: Brugge Brasserie, brewpub doing Belgian styles in Indianapolis.