Along the way, we took in some fun tourist sites, a lot of Mother Nature's beauty, and also some of her destruction.
We saw some crazy flooding…

We saw some beautiful nature at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois…

And some in Tinley Park, Illinois…

And we accidentally ended up in Michigan after searching for “Oink’s”…

(On the way to the Indiana Dunes State Park, we saw a sign for a business that said it was "five miles ahead, across the street from Oink’s—so I made Iwanski drive five miles to find out what Oinks was. As we got closer and closer to Oink’s, we suddenly saw a Michigan welcome sign. We were accidentally in Michigan!—and all because of Oink’s.)
It was a relaxing, fun, funny time...and I can't believe it's August 13th already!!
Sigh...I would like now to quote a line from the movie Short Circuit (I'm such a nerd; I love that movie!), "Time's fun when you're having flies."