Took this picture Monday morning as we prepared to depart Moraine View State Park, near Bloomington/Normal, IL. We headed out Sunday afternoon, and headed up IL1 to Danville, where we headed west. It was an awesome day for driving, with temps in the 70's and low humidity. We stopped at Chrisman, IL, at Frostop for refreshments. They serve outstanding root beer floats, the same way they did when we stopped there in 2004 on our second trip to Door County! Muriel was too young, then, to remember that stop, but she DID remember how crowded it seemed in our Dodge Dakota. We stopped at Moraine View in '04, too- the trees are a little taller, and there's a wind farm next door, but its still a very quiet spot to drop anchor for the night.
We headed out at first light, more or less, and had an uneventful ride up. The weather was again, outstanding.
We got to Perrot State Park about 2:45 on Monday afternoon, and set up camp in a spot that actually turned out about as good as it looked on paper! We made our reservations and plans for this back in early January, and really had no idea what Perrot was going to be like, except that we wanted to vacation in either Michigan, Minnesota, or Wisconsin, and camp in a region we had never explored.
Perrot is very cool. Any utube vids you might can't express what an amazing place it is. On Tuesday, Torrey's Birthday, we went for a little hike around part of the park, and up to the highest elevation, called Brady's Bluff.
Muriel enjoys the view from a bench about half way up. About every time we thought we were about near the top, (how could there possibly be more?) there would be more up sloping trail!
Muriel being a mountain goat.
The view from about there.
From a bit further on, it looked like this...
Not far to the top!
On our way back down the other side. Should have taken more pictures up there. 
Back at the 'site it looked like this when we got back.
We cooked up some Wisconsin brats and hit the hay. A good day!
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