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…

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…