The day started with a Seattle tour, run by one of the folks who works at the hostel & who seems to be the person who organises a lot of the social stuff. There was this tour, and the cookies…

Everyone in the universe was in Seattle this weekend, it seems, with PAX West, a Mariners Baseball game, and a few conventions or conferences, so I found a place out by the airport. Hostelworld was convinced that there were no…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…