Embassy Suites Hotel Detroit-Southfield

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.

... I have for a while unless they can make them out of kimchi in Korea. My flight in wasn't bad, but I didn't get much sleep. Time to work on the TEFL though, so I will end my entry here unless something interesting happens between now and my flight, which isn't for 3 more hours! Sweet layover!

... stores wherever we travel. I'm already planning on buying another suitcase in Australia to carry home all my goodies (which I know I'll collect).
So much for not knowing anyone. Bill got a call from a friend yesterday who was talking to an acquaintance of his who was telling him about a cruise he was taking, and wouldn't you know it, it's the one we're on ...

The morning leaving the island was quite surreal for me.  For the first time that I can remember I was properly prepared for a trip with a surplus of time to leisurely pack my belongings.  Suprisingly, I did not mentally prepare myself for the fact that I would be living in a foreign country for the better half of a year.  On this particular day, I solely was thinking about finally escaping my tiny hometown.  I have to admit that at some points this summer I speculated whether or not my ...

... A CAN!! What kind of self respecting restaurant does that? Anyway, I sent it back and asked for water. Little voice seemed confused but I wasn't about to tell him how to run a bar. Mainly because I don't know. What I do know, however, is that I like my Guinness from a pump.
At another place, again, full of promise I was given the usual lengthy booze brief. One German sounding brew caught my ear. Upon asking for more information, I was told it was a very strong beer from ...

... home).

About 10 k's up the road we join the queue to enter America. 1 hour later we are at the booth with a similar stern guy at first asking questions and then 2 minutes later wanting to know all about our trip. He asks us for our rego papers and passports for ID. We head off and about 500 yards (sorry Metres) Cath asks me if I've got the rego papers I say no and pull over. What else to do but to walk back to the checkpoint. I get ...

... friends. I crashed. Sunday we had a gathering at our favorite bar, Hermann's Olde Town Grille in Plymouth. So many friends showed up. Thanks to everyone for battling the fabulous weather for a visit. It was great to see all of you. We wish we could have spent more time with each of you! Before Christmas I went shopping with my sister!! I purposely brought very little with me so that I could stuff my luggage ...

... see her daughter again and the baby for the first time. The baby was very well behaved and I slept like a rock anyway. Also, a band called The Click Five was on the plane starting a tour of southeast Asia in Manila. They had their guitars and other instruments with them. I chatted with one of the band members for awhile. They had a song on Now, Volume 20 that one of my seat mates had on her iPod, so I got to hear their stuff.

... Army is Sinclair's vision that there should be no separation between one's life and work and art and politics. "That was the idea - separation is doom," Sinclair says, quoting his original liner notes for the MC5's Kick Out the Jams LP. Sinclair still believes that separation is doom, but he notes that people today seem even more separated than ever. "People are united now by popular culture in its most vapid sense, in its modern sense. It's a sad thing, really ...