After my trip to Van Wert, OH I was hurrying back to Chicago for dinner with an associate from the Immigration Reform movement when I got a text cancelling the dinner.  I suddenly had some time so I went to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore National Park. It was excellent.

They even have a Mt Baldy.

It is about 100 feet tall and is a walking dune

More pictures here:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/42316886@N00/sets/72157622638572537/

The park was pioneered by a Senator in the 1960’s to stop the spread of the power plants and steel mills that have taken over most of the shore of Lake Michigan.  Finding it was seriously good serendipity.  It is in balance a good idea.  Still as a libertarian I have to ask “National Lakeshore?”  What’s next “National Dump”or “National Dutch Elm Disease Museum?”