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Article: Do the dunes this fall in Porter County, Ind.(Going Places)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2001
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Byline: Mike Michaelson
It's the variety of colors that captivates at the Indiana Dunes. Spread out before you like a Navajo blanket is dark chocolate wet sand, beige-colored dry sand and the variegated shades of blue in the broad expanses of lake. A purple ribbon of haze floats on the horizon and white cirrus clouds drift across a blue sky.
After a heart-pounding, leg-wearying climb to a high dune, you spread out a beach towel in a quiet clearing. Surrounded by the green leaves of sumac and struggling strands of dune grass, you seem a thousand miles from Gary's belching steel mills and the concrete-and-steel canyons of Chicago that lie less than an hour's ride away. ...