We are getting closer.
Scheduled to leave the house Monday morning. Stop #1 will be Holland, Michigan. We booked an AirBnB for our night there. Its a semi-touristy town on the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan.
The official route of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour, which is a mapped route, includes an ugly section of Interstate 94 that runs along the southern edge of Gary, IN and up and around the southern edge of the lake. We plan to follow Route 20 and Route 12, which is scenic and runs through the 'dunes' area of the southern tip fo the lake. That eventually will turn into the Red Arrow Highway, another scenic route and then rejoin the so-called official route, which leaves the interstate to join the local highways as the route moves a bit north of the Indiana/Michigan state state line. We will follow local highways up to Holland.
It's a lot slower route, but it takes us through small towns, touristy places, along the lakeshore and past marinas. All of which are invisible when driving on the super-slab. The point of this trip is to rediscover those family road trips of the 1960's.