A Three-Great-Lake Weekend: Laura and I have dinner on Saturday at a patio restaurant on the waterfront of a deep blue and spectrum-skied Lake Ontario. On Sunday morning, we drive west across southern Ontario, to Goderich, and eat a high-noon picnic lunch on a lighthouse-crowned hill overlooking a vivid blue-green Lake Huron. We kill a few hours at Pinery Provincial Park, roaming the beaches, soaking up UV rays, climbing dunes, collecting pebbles. Finally, we drive southeast to Port Burwell, where we grab dinner at a fish & chips dive alongside an ethereally grey and nearly horizonless Lake Erie. We’ll hit Superior and Michigan another time.

