{"id":5161,"date":"2017-06-15T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:33:56","slug":"a-beach-on-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"A beach on Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we visited the Emil Bach house we saw that it was just a couple of blocks from Lake Michigan, so we walked down to the lake shore. There is a small beach and park there where people can enjoy the sand (ugh!), the water and the breeze from the lake, which really did cool things down a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The lake is huge, except for the lack of waves I could have been standing at the ocean. We didn&#8217;t see any large ships, there were a few small boats. 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