Best Western Executive Plaza Ann Arbor

Phew... Going through US Customs was a bit trying... No searching but a lot of questions meant - I supposed - to catch us with something bad... Who knows. We did not loose any meal. We're in the middle of a fairground, with a weak WiFi but OK. The only analog TV channels are from Detroit but the Detroit area offers 22 digital channels, many

Longer day than expected but we grinded the flying condo to a halt. No problem other than a sticking lock on the propane door.

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... diversion into Great Smoky Mountain National Park to see the fall colors. A week from tomorrow, we'll be back at our friend Pat's Place, in Webster, Florida, where warm weather awaits!

The colors have started to change up here - will upload a couple of pics taken today as we're traveing.

Mrs. Here....

Mr. and I are heading South this Sunday in our 5th wheel. First Stop is Taylorsville Lake State Park in Kentucky.

We plan on taking 5 weeks and end up in Texas for 6 months.

We are first timers in a 5th wheel and are hoping we will still be speaking ...

... Yes!  Facebook was a great tool to keep track of travel friends.  Almost everyone I met was not American, so I probably won’t see them very often, but now I have a cadre of friends who are Canadian, British, German, Australian, Mexican, Kiwi, Romanian, Brazilian, Thai, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish…

Fan: What was your favorite place you visited?

Me: I think my favorite country was Romania.  Of course, my impression of every place is colored by the people ...

... for, electronic somethings, but got swatted away and yelled at for touching the bag. Believe it or not, I made it through the security check.

The fly to Denver was seemingly too long and fairly uneventful.

Once in Denver for my 2 hour layover, I -of course- immediately bought postcards and such to pretend like I have actually visited this city/state. I hate when people do this ...

... on the front door. As some of her neighbors are doing (and as I am doing in somewhat o\the same fashion at RiverHome), Cendra's yard is being encouraged to go back to a grass prairie ecology. Right now in high spring, it's lush high grass and various perennials that will compete with the grass, along with creeping plants such as vinca and a very low dense creeping thyme where the grass isn't so aggressive. Later in the summer when the grass matures it ...

Flight arrived in DTW on time. I had lunch and cigarettes at the FOX Sports Bar. Spent the next two hours at the lounge before going to the gate. Unfortunately, our flight was running late. We left 45 minutes behind schedule.

... items (c'mon, just call it a turkey and cheese sandwich for crying out loud, nobody knows what the Veg Head or Tofu You sandwich is anyways), to the annoying Sconnie chick that budged us out of the way to order her caffeine of choice - disgusted us. As had become a common practice by now, we took one look at each other, walked out the door, and began searching for a Subway (which are EVERYWHERE, btw - making them the Scrubs of fast-food restaurants). This really showed ...

... an apathy to other people's problems. There's a "too bad for you, not my problem" attitude that is pretty disheartening. I was not even the main target of words that said as much, and it was painful to watch. No wonder people hate Americans. In my travels, I had come to the conclustion that American tourists are not the rudest out there. Now, some of the top rude people are Americans, I admit that, but I feel like the average ...

... Sinclair recalled. "Instead of people saying, 'Why doesn't he just shut up and serve his 10 years?' all of a sudden, they're saying, 'Well, jeeze, John Lennon says this is wrong; maybe we ought to think about this. You know, the Beatles are coming here to look into this guy's case.' Everything changed. Three days later, I was out of prison. It was like a miracle." Out of the slammer, Sinclair went to New York to meet and thank John Lennon. "He wasn't above ...