With only a few more tick sightings, we left Maumee State Park near Oregon, Ohio and headed to Michigan. I see where the mispronunciation of Oregon by “easterners” comes from, Oregon, Ohio is pronounced “oregone”. We cruised up the shores of Lake Huron thru Toledo, Ohio, past Ann Arbor, Michigan up to Tawas Point State Park on Lake Huron. These last few parks have been huge. There are 3 to 4 hundred campers, all crammed into the smallest space possible and full. Hard to walk the dog, because of all the barking that takes place. We left Tawas and headed across Michigan to Lake Michigan, to the little town of Manistee, cool little place with a harbor right downtown. We turned south and headed to Van Buren State Park, right next to the Palisades Nuclear Plant in South Haven. Odd to see these Nuclear plants here, being from the area where we have stopped building (Satsop) or torn down (Rainier) ours. Another park of 3 to 400 packed people. We have noticed a change from RV’s to trailers, our last camp had 8 Rvs compared to 200 or so trailers or tents. Out west it was almost 50/50 split, I’m not sure of the change. We headed again south to meet friends in southern Indiana. Down to Gary, Indiana, glancing by Chicago thru Indianapolis to Patouka Lake near French Lick. Another huge park, though not as full. We stayed two nights, first time since we left Kansas, that we have not moved on after one night. Our friends are about 15 miles south, we are going to stay two or three days and head for the west coast. Mnt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Yellowstone are our goals for home. Our grand daughter has a birthday on Sept 3 that we want to be at. Then it is load the boat, head to the San Juans for a week or two, then back to work and our winter routine. Sometime thru the winter I am sure next summers plans will hatch. We spent an enjoyable few days in the back hills of Indiana. This has to be the “Conspiracy Theory” capital of the US. Chemtrails, 9-11, IRS, Muslim religion, Obama and Federal Government are all subject to conjecture. We went on a local zipline, did a tour of the area, went fishing(where Suzie caught a catfish and I didn’t catch anything). Our friend are building a log house in the hills, no inspections, no permits- there are none in their county. We have headed out to Stephen Forbes State Park in central Illinois. We have made the turn to return home, feels kind of strange to point west.