My favorite photo from our trip to Detroit is this one, taken from the Canadian border. It captures the chill of that snowy day. It showcases the view from the river. And, at this distance, it’s very hard to tell that almost all of those...
On the bus to the airport, I sat by a team of teenage hockey players who were snapping photos of each other, running the picture through an app, and hooting over the results. A little research led me to AgingBooth, which purports to reveal how...
A lesson learned: while dining at Parthenon, one of the cavernous eateries in Detroit’s Greektown, I broke the “Blink” rule. You know the “Blink” rule, don’t you? According to Malcom Gladwell’s _Blink_, we...
Or … maybe not. But still, it’s fun imagining myself zipping around Atlanta in Chevy’s concept for a personal mobility vehicle. Hmmm … would The Company let me park it in a corner of the limited and closely-regulated employee...
We aren’t big whiskey drinkers. (Heck, we aren’t big drinkers of anything much, except water!) But in Windsor, Ontario, on wintery afternoons, there aren’t many options for tourists … so we drove down Riverside Drive to the...
Last time we were in Detroit, we had a memorable breakfast at Russell Street Deli — for all the right reasons. Locally-sourced food — right down to the turkey used to make the succulent sausages — meant everything we ordered tasted...
Our room in the Westin comes with a bizarre double-headed shower head. In addition to dousing you with not one but two streams of water, the device very likely doubles the hotel’s water expense per shower. What is even more bizarre is the...
Our first day in Detroit is dedicated to revisiting two comfort food destinations we loved our first time here: Motz Bugers and Buddy’s Pizza. Motz is still the lovable hole-in-the wall it has always been, a fact which gives me great comfort...
[Photo credit: Mark McElroy. “Alfama Streetcar, Lisbon, Portugal.” 2011] I took the photo above on our first night in Lisbon, strolling in the Alfama district. Just after sunset, the streetlights came up, casting a warm, golden glow on...
