Family prefers Great Lakes beaches to the ocean (SouthtownStar) :: from National Marine Sanctuary News
Posted: 2008-06-15HARRISVILLE, Mich. - Every summer, when I tell friends that my family is bailing out of steamy Washington D.C. to head for the beach, they assume we're off to Rehoboth or Dewey in Delaware, or another one of the usual suspects on the Atlantic Ocean. I get a lot of double-takes when I explain that we're headed toward the Great Lakes, in Michigan. Apparently, a lot of people outside Michigan ...