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    Month: August 2019

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    Stop 100: Cuyahoga Valley National Park (#40)

    August 23, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Because of stormy weather, we only got to spend one day at this beautiful national park, but we packed a LOT into the one day! The 32,572-acre Cuyahoga Valley National Park only became a national park in 2000 — but it had been a national recreation area since 1974. It

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    Wabash Cannonball Trail

    Stop 99: Oh…O-H-I-O… the Last Stop in the Midwest

    August 19, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    O-H-I-O, the 28th state we have visited on our adventures across the U.S. The state gets its name from the Ohio River (a 981-mile river; the largest tributary to the Mississippi River by volume) whose name originated with an interpretation of the Seneca Indian word ohiːyo’, meaning “great river.” Ohio

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    Indiana Dunes National Park

    Stop 98: Indiana Dunes National Park (#39)

    August 12, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized One comment

    After a bit of a national park hiatus, we were extremely happy to arrive in northern Indiana so that we could visit our 39th national park on this great adventure: Indiana Dunes National Park, located along the shore of Lake Michigan, and the first and only national park in Indiana.

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    Illinois prairie

    Stop 97: Circling Through Indiana and Illinois

    August 9, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    From Michigan, we did a counterclockwise circle of Indiana and Illinois, stopping first in Bluffton, just outside Fort Wayne, Indiana. Indiana, the 26th state we have visited, means Land of the Indians (though not anymore) and is known as the “Crossroads of America,” because of the importance of waterways, railroads,

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