bye bye Michigan, hi Ohio, pitstop Pittsburgh

I spent 5 days in Warren, Michigan, living like a Golden Girl in suburbia and getting to know Mike and Mindy down at St Clair Shores. Mindy is a Singaporean who married over to Michigan 5 years ago and made friends with my aunt after singlish betrayed her at the diner's. Today Mike and Mindy live like true Michiganders, hunting and harvesting the best off the land for their suburban brood. Not that they're living wild... or i suppose they are, but Mike and Mindy were like the best hosts i could hope for.


Mike is a real Michigander in that he hunts deer and fishes salmon for the dinner table. seriously. and like grows crops in his garden.


very. heavy. one. like. bowling. ball.




Mike took us power boating out on St Clair Lake.




I also got to mow the lawn.


This is Mike and Mindy's cat.


Today we took a 6 hour road trip from Warren to Detroit to Toledo and down the Ohio Turnpike into Penn.


Saying bye to Detroit.


Leaving the automobile capital of the world - u can't miss it, its the biggest wheel in the world.




Ohio is corn country.


So like we cross the Ohio river with the bridge on one side...


and Toledo on the other...


Penn is mountainous country though...


And then 6 hours on, Pittsburgh crept into view... it has a skyline that's considered top 15 in the world according to emporis.com


The Cathedral of Learning of Pittsburgh U, CMU was just around the bend...