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A couple years ago - I think it was the weekend before Labor Day - Irish and I wanted to go to Redamak's https://www.redamaks.com/ and drove up to New Buffalo. We planned on driving by the beach and turning around (it costs to park and since we were only taking a quick look we didn't plan on parking in the first place), which just takes a couple minutes. It took a least 5 that day because the line of cars both trying to get into the beach parking lot and trying to turn around and go back was so long. Plus the lot was full. We got back to the main road and drove the short distance to Redamak's, saw the line to get into their parking lot and just kept going. That line - I don't think I'm exaggerating - had to be about 1/2 a mile long and probably made up of mostly tourists and summer people. We ended up driving further north to Bridgman where we ended up eating at a little drive-in we'd never noticed before. It was delicious and we planned on going back but last summer they were closed because of covid. This year they didn't reopen in May because a water main broke and ruined their interior. They were finally able to open in August and we drove up there. Shrimp basket was as good as I remembered and I got onion rings this time instead of fries. Yum! Mikey's Drive-In is on our permanent at-least-once-a-summer must do list. After Mikey's we drove south to New Buffalo so we could get ice cream at Oink's Dutch Treat https://oinksdutchtreat.com/, another must-do.

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Do you, or have you, lived somewhere where tourism is one of the top industries? Is it a blessing or a curse, or is it a mix of both?

The first glimpse of Lake Michigan, heading toward the beach. (We went on a Friday so it wasn't particularly busy though I imagine weekend traffic started come in as we were headed out.)



Oink's Dutch Treat.


Where the beach road become a private road.