Wait, what, rain again? We awoke to the sound of rain pattering on the boat, so what did we do? We had banana bread and pea meal bacon for breakfast. That’s what I call taking control of the situation.
Once the rain stopped we decided to take a walk. Yesterday we walked into the “Arts District” of Michigan City. Today we walked north and were surprised when we came upon the zoo! We paid our $10 to enter and found a very nice, small zoo. It was in need of some repair but the enclosures were well designed and it appeared that the animals were well cared for.
We went by the tiger enclosure first but no luck - it appeared that the tiger was on vacation in Florida. The Lions were on duty!
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| Here is a Peacock waiting to use the restroom |
There was a tower built in the 1930’s on the top of a hill above the deer enclosure. We walked up the 5 flights of stairs and had a wonderful view of the surrounding area.
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| A view of the power plant - the marina is right down to the right of the smokestack. |
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| You can see Chicago in the distance |
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| Capuchin Monkeys- I thought it was a mirror! |
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| A very bored Grizzly Bear |
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| Some more street art |
My crew, Bob, left me at about 1 pm. He was taking an Amtrak from New Buffalo to Ann Arbor. For some reason Amtrak no longer stops in Michigan City so Bob had to take an Uber over to the next town to catch the train. We had such a nice trip it was sad to see him go.
The clouds disappeared in the afternoon. It was clear, sunny and warm. I took a short walk and got this good shot of the power plant cooling tower as well as this memorial to WWI.
In the late afternoon I sat up on the back of the boat and watched the sun go down. It was a beautiful afternoon with many jet contrails visible overhead. As I took in the beautiful view I remembered my father-in-law, Bill, who enjoyed looking up at the contrails. I felt close to him watching those wisps of white overhead….
Just a notice that I will be leaving Blue Horizon on Sept 19 for a trip to Atlanta and then to Boulder to attend the memorial service for Melanie’s dad. We will now be on hiatus until Oct 6 or so. Please send your comments and questions and we will be happy to answer.
Oh, by the way, I did a calculation based on our fuel use so far. I calculate that we use 2.8 gallons per hour of travel. If we take 551.2 miles (as posted on our Sept 16th post) and divide by 190 gallons (the amount we needed to fill up the tanks) you get 2.92 miles to the gallon. Perhaps not great when compared to a car, but excellent when compared to the guy who told us he gets 1 mile per gallon….
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