Gosh, LilHoov, your post brought back some fond memories. I grew up in South Bend/Mishawaka and my great escape was a drive to Lake Michigan to just watch the lake and let my mind wander. Warren Dunes, Benton Harbor/St. Joe and South Haven were my haunts. Winter was always the best but I stayed closer to home at Warren Dunes. One day it would be like a sheet of glass and another roaring waves with ice on the beach.
When I moved to Virginia everyone seemed determined to show me the ocean. OK, so I went. I was a little disappointed because I couldn't see what I was supposed to be seeing! Clearly my friends had never experienced looking at a Great Lake.
A couple years ago my daughter and I drove to Toronto in late October for a wedding. She had been all over the world but had never seen a Great Lake. So I got to 'introduce' her to Erie and Ontario. She was amazed..."How can they call these lakes??? They look like oceans" I was so tickled because it was cold and windy and the lakes had good sized waves. They 'perfomed' very well for this novice viewer
