we are in motown baby

32 hours on the plane and in airport lounges:

'ha-ha, pedra branca'
'are we there yet'
'was tokyo always so... agrarian?'
'omg, long beach'
'is he feeding that baby alcohol?'
'are we there yet'
'why the plane never fly in straight line one'
'zzzz'
'its 1am and i'm somewhere in detroit with 3 bags, i should so freak out right now'

anyway i didn't, and i got to the hotel cos some black dude gave me a ride (damn fake hotel shuttle service). so, give me some street cred already.


Yea baby, first glimpse of Detroit. We are in motown baby. lock the doors.


Detroit was kinda slummy, but we were heading north for Warren, which was middle class american suburbia.


The first thing i told my aunt, who picked me up from the hotel in the morning, was that i'd never seen such wide open skies.


Aug 15 was also Dreamcruise day, when tonnes of of people turn up on Woodward Ave...


for the world's biggest vintage car parade...


and a pretty good tan.


31134 Shawn Dr.


there's my renegade aunt who moved to Detroit in the 80s - here's a lady with spunk.

That's it for day 1.