Day 2 - Indiana and It

After waking up several times during the night, we finally decided to start off at 7 in the morning. No breakfast, no shower and no change of clothes - we wanted to get away from Ohio as fast as possible. So in the spitting rain, we packed up the tent and went on our way. After about 3 hours of rain, we finally broke into Indiana, and the sun came with it. We made a pass though South Bend to see if Notre Dame was all it is cracked up to be. It is. The first part of campus that we saw was the towering golden dome and spire, followed by a full-sized golf-course. We entered the gates, and were soon greeted by a cemetery (we thought this a funny way to welcome kids to school before a gruelling year). The campus is absolutely stunning and we walked around for about an hour, seeing the various quads and student centres. We both concluded that it was the most beautiful school we had ever seen, but that we still preferred our respective colleges better. Notre Dame is much too large. In South Bend we also had the opportunity to eat at Chipotle and sit at Starbucks to surf the internet. After this pit stop we had the fuel (both for us and the truck) to make the final press to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Arriving at the lakeshore was a sight for sore eyes, as there were no RVs in sight. We parked at campground 28 and set up the tent, all the while thinking about how happy we were to finally be camping for real. A fire soon appeared in the fire circle, and we decided to put the air mattresses next to it, outside the tent. The night was absolutely sublime. Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Danny Schmidt, and CSNY all joined us and we drifted away into blissful sleep by the fire.