Lanks Adventures

My husband Bruce and I live on a small lake in northern Indiana where my family has spent 5 generations of summer weekends. Twenty years ago we moved from the Indiana town where we were raised to our lake cottage to live full time as lake residents rather than weekend lakers.  We love our home and enjoy summer days in our boat with our adult children and seven grandchildren.  We also love the four seasons we experience in Indiana - usually.  Snow is nice at Christmas but sub zero temperatures,  blinding north winds and knee deep snow doesn’t bring “snow day” excitement when you are retired.  We love being outdoors but shoveling snow isn’t high on our list. As we sat around a warm fire in the fireplace on a cold fall evening at home, we talked about our retirement bucket list. As we discussed our bucket list, it was evident there was much to see in the USA. We also had a warm, 3 month old Bernedoodle at our feet. We are both animal lovers and the thought of trave...