Category: It Can Be Fun To Run Away

First, let’s get this out of the way; Where the fuzzy hell was this a week ago? I was at Union Station, looking at the display of route guides, and I would have noticed it. Please don’t tell me that I started a trend of going to Kalamazoo. I’d packed up the night before, as much…

The thing about getting on a train when it’s still dark, having gotten up at Oh Dear God AM, is that you tend to hit your seat & sleep. Or at least I do. I did find that the overhead racks, on this train at least, were big enough to hold Big Red with ease,…

On a Sunday which threatened rain but held off on actually delivering it where such a thing could be inconvenient, we went to The Henry Ford, which combines a ‘standard’ museum with a … living history museum? Greenfield Village is a bit tricky to describe. We ought to know more about the families who founded…

Most of the Detroit content, to be honest, is in the Henry Ford post. What’s in here are a few photos and some things I noticed. On the way back from The Henry Ford, we stopped in at Atwater in the Park, a craft brewery in a former church. I had a cider, though, in…

My original scheme for getting to Detroit would have involved arriving at 0030h, then catching a taxi to a hotel, and meeting up with the Detroit folks in the morning. While the words ‘stupid and insane’ didn’t get used, there was a vibe, so we met up in Klamazoo instead. I should point out that, until…

My accommodation for this one is the Freehand Chicago, a hostel which is trying to ride that line between Hostel & Hotel. In practice, this means that there’s a coffee place and cocktail bar on the ground floor, an ensuite bathroom in every room and towels which are replace approximately daily, 4-bed air-conditioned dorms with…

Back in 2012 I did an Architectural Cruise, so this time I did the River & Lake version. It included some of the same content for the river portion, on the grounds that it’s right there, and there is nothing else to talk about. Yes, I did try to take a US Flag Selfie. And what…

Turns out that one of the advantages of traveling with other people is that they take photos too. Lots of them. Thank You, Steven! Brace Yourselves.   Here are some decent shots of the mirror maze.   As I said before, I was really impressed. They’ve done everything they can to make it difficult to…

Plan for the day involved mostly being inside. This worked out well, because it absolutely pissed down. I got noticeably soaked walking two sides of a block while trying to remain under cover. The drains and gutters were not coping. There’s really not a good way to sum up MSI, other than “They’ve Got A…

In the sad lonely days after Gen Con, I hung around in Indianapolis to go and do the touristy stuff that you don’t do while the convention is on. Most of that tourism was in places where I, at least, don’t like taking photos, like the Eiteljorg Museum, or the State Museum, so not a…