Blue Chip Camping

Looking out the window this morning and seeing the ominous sky with more storms predicted we thanked Allison for her offer to take us around Chicago and said goodbye to Blanche. We had a great time!

We took Rte 57N to Rte 30E back into Indiana so we wouldn't have to travel the Interstate again. Then we hopped onto I65 to Gary, Indiana because Rte 30 got a little rough with a lot of pot holes. We had a car go by us and the lady in the passenger seat stuck her head out the windo and yelled "Hello New Hampshire!" We waved back and it was funny.

We turned onto “scenic” Route 12 which the map shows going along Lake Michigan. Well it’s not scenic and you can’t see the lake. There are a number of parks along the route but signage is poor. We didn’t stop because we couldn’t tell if there were campgrounds in the parks or not. We bumped our way along into Michigan which was our 3rd state today! Well all of a sudden the road got 100% better and appearing to our right was the Blue Chip Casino. The coach just turned itself into the parking lot and decided this was home for the night! Casino Camping can be fun. Usually there is one location in the parking lot where all of the RV’s and tractor trailer trucks go. There are do’s and don’ts for Casino Camping. We don’t put our levelers down or our sliders out. We don’t set up our lawn chairs. We come in and park, utilize the restaurants and restrooms and we leave. There is no fee for parking and security does a great job watching the vehicles.

We went in and played for a while and had dinner. We had tornado warnings until 6PM but fortunately we had only a little rain and very gusty winds that shook the RV a little. We did some planning for Michigan and then went to bed.