Pullman & Indiana Dunes

Sunday afternoon we continued south along the west side of Chicago, eventually making our way to Pullman National Historical Park. Pullman started as a “company town” started to house those building Pullman railroad cars as well as the porters who traveled on them. 

From Pullman we made our way into Indiana, stopping at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner (No. 43). This one was inside a casino, and unlike the one in Hollywood Florida we went to last year was not separated from the casino area, so the air was pretty smoky. It was probably our least favorite HRC so far.

  

Sunday morning we headed to Indiana Dunes National Park. We had visited back in 2005 when it was a National Lakeshore but didn’t have enough time to explore much of the park. We looked around the visitor center and watched the movie, then headed toward the east end of the park.  

We looked at the Century of Progress homes and Mt Baldy, the biggest dune in the park, then continued east through Michigan City to New Buffalo Michigan, hoping to buy a Michigan mug at a Starbucks. Unfortunately they were out so we turned around and headed back through the park to the west end, stopping for a late lunch along the way. Maybe some day we will come back when it’s cooler and less crowded to walk some trails and along the beach.  

We then headed down to Merrilville to get some gas and visit a candy factory. After that we went back to our hotel. We ate dinner nearby and retired for the night. 

This morning after checking out we walked around the nearby Cabela's to kill some time then drove to Chicago for our flight home.