We are so happy with our decision to get William a new bike for his birthday in the spring. Having gears and bigger tires made a huge difference in our ability to ride as a family. And after the debacle of shoving that bike in the trunk of my A4, we bought the SUV and bike rack so we wanted to make good use out of it! I had scoped out (I thought) a neat boardwalk path to ride alongside the Indiana (Sand) Dunes. Turns out the path I picked was a paved wooded park path several miles from the lake. Of course I didn't realize this until we were riding. So after we enjoyed ourselves there for a few hours, including a short attempt at the single track mountain biking path, we loaded the bikes back up and drove the 15 minutes to the lakeshore and dunes and walked in the sand and played in the surf. Not my original plan, but an absolutely wonderful family fun day!
I didn't get more pictures once we were back into the single track because I was too busy trying to make sure I stayed on my bike. William or John always went first so I like to think my timing was just disrupted trying not to run into them rather than my mountain biking skills being suspect.
Indiana Dunes State Park is on the Indiana side of Lake Michigan. You can see the Chicago skyline across the lake. After parking at the visitor center, we walked up hill and down hill for about 20 minutes to get to the lakeshore. Our shoes were full of the fine sand. Our mouths were full of the bugs!
