Soothing for the Soul – A Day of Wide Open Horizons and Thundering Waves at the Indiana Dunes

For weeks my daughter had been nudging that she wanted to go hike trail 10 in the Indiana Dunes.

She wanted to relive a childhood experience. We had taken the kids on the woods part of that trail way back when. It is fairly flat and thus easier to manage for little legs. But we had never gone in the summer when the woods can be stifling and full of mosquitoes.

Here are the kids on trail 10 in 2005.

I was reluctant: At 5.5 miles, trail 10 is the longest in the Indiana Dunes State Park. Half of i...