We left Coloma, Michigan bright and early this morning and started to head south. Our first stop was Michigan City which is actually located in Indiana. There are two lighthouses located along the shore there. Both located fairly close to one another.
The first lighthouse was Old Michigan City. It was built in 1837 to mark the entrance to Trail Creek in order to give Indiana a port on the Great Lakes.
Old Michigan Lighthouse
Lizzie and Mom at the Old Michigan Lighthouse
The next lighthouse was the Michigan City East Pierhead . This lighthouse was built in 1871. It was built to mark the entrance to the h arbor at Michigan City. It was difficult to get a good picture of this lighthouse as it was located at the end of a breakwater at the outer edge of the harbor. To get there you had to go through the entrance of the Yacht Club (Literally many yachts) and you could not get into the gate unless you had the passcode which meant you had a yacht moored there. In viewing the satellite image of this lighthouse we determined that there was indeed a way we could have gotten closer to take a better picture, but it would have been a long walk!
Michigan City East Pierhead
There are Tiger Lilies all over Michigan of every color variation you can imagine.
There use to be a third lighthouse located here, called the Michigan City Breakwater, but it is now been replaced with a light on a pole.
We then continued our ride south through Indiana and Illinois and spent the night at a KOA in Benton, IL. This is what we saw along the road today - cornfield after cornfield, after cornfield, after cornfield........you get the picture.
Cornfields abound in Indiana
We did see this Barn Quilt on the side of a house
An oddity in itself as they are usually found on barns.
A long drive but it got us closer to home!
Til next time..........
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