We went on a hunting trip on our first full day in Michigan and came back with a car full of Trader Joes groceries! We're only 20 minutes away from Ann Arbor/University of Michigan and about 40 minutes from the Detroit airport, so we're hoping we have visitors! The area is really pretty but the snow is melting! It's suppose to be over 40 tomorrow! The weather is volatile, one minute sunny and cold then overcast and cold. It's always cold, but nothing in Michigan has been as bad as the cold in Iowa. We've mainly been getting the cabin in shape and going to Value World to supplement our insufficient wardrobes. Thursday Steve took me on "the tour". We bought a kitchen table from Craigslist in Ypsilanti (which is kind of yucky), then we drove into downtown Detroit. Steve's always told me how awful it is but I thought he was exaggerating, but no he wasn't. It really looks like a bomb has gone off.
There are endless storefronts that are boarded up or burnt, stately brick buildings abandoned, neighborhood after neighborhood of nice big 2-story homes that would cost hundreds of thousands in California, but you couldn't give away now in Detroit because they are so trashed, the streets are virtually treeless, there are VERY FEW people walking around downtown, hardly any cars, it's just bleak bleak bleak and SO depressing! I can't begin to describe the sheer vastness of this misery. Then you drive just a few miles north along the river and it's almost like a curtin goes up! The neighborhoods of Grosse Point and all these riverfront communities start and the homes are so unbelievably gorgeous it takes your breath away. There are trees and mansions lining the river where all these huge ships sail by, yacht clubs, the views are so impressive, like living on the ocean only you don't have to listen to the infernal racket of the waves. Then we drove back through Detroit where is looks like a war zone. It's weird! All the people we've met in Michigan have been so nice, but they are all so sad because they know th
eir state has sunk into a black hole. We had to drive to the next town because Chelsea doesn't have a LAUNDRY MAT so we had lunch in a little diner and just started talking to the guy at the next table and it ended up he has an uncle, a retired admiral, who lives in the retirement home in Davis where Maggie worked! How small of a world????
We went on a hunting trip on our first full day in Michigan and came back with a car full of Trader Joes groceries! We're only 20 minutes away from Ann Arbor/University of Michigan and about 40 minutes from the Detroit airport, so we're hoping we have visitors! The area is really pretty but the snow is melting! It's suppose to be over 40 tomorrow! The weather is volatile, one minute sunny and cold then overcast and cold. It's always cold, but nothing in Michigan has been as bad as the cold in Iowa. We've mainly been getting the cabin in shape and going to Value World to supplement our insufficient wardrobes. Thursday Steve took me on "the tour". We bought a kitchen table from Craigslist in Ypsilanti (which is kind of yucky), then we drove into downtown Detroit. Steve's always told me how awful it is but I thought he was exaggerating, but no he wasn't. It really looks like a bomb has gone off.
There are endless storefronts that are boarded up or burnt, stately brick buildings abandoned, neighborhood after neighborhood of nice big 2-story homes that would cost hundreds of thousands in California, but you couldn't give away now in Detroit because they are so trashed, the streets are virtually treeless, there are VERY FEW people walking around downtown, hardly any cars, it's just bleak bleak bleak and SO depressing! I can't begin to describe the sheer vastness of this misery. Then you drive just a few miles north along the river and it's almost like a curtin goes up! The neighborhoods of Grosse Point and all these riverfront communities start and the homes are so unbelievably gorgeous it takes your breath away. There are trees and mansions lining the river where all these huge ships sail by, yacht clubs, the views are so impressive, like living on the ocean only you don't have to listen to the infernal racket of the waves. Then we drove back through Detroit where is looks like a war zone. It's weird! All the people we've met in Michigan have been so nice, but they are all so sad because they know th
eir state has sunk into a black hole. We had to drive to the next town because Chelsea doesn't have a LAUNDRY MAT so we had lunch in a little diner and just started talking to the guy at the next table and it ended up he has an uncle, a retired admiral, who lives in the retirement home in Davis where Maggie worked! How small of a world????
1 comment:
Wow, what an eyeopener, Davis is certainly an oasis. Though with the state of the state, the country and the world...we are all just hanging on the edge.
Your cabin looks very cozy indeed, I'll sleep better at night knowing that you two are warm and safe from the elements. If it gets too cold for outhouse treks, you could get a commode and chamber pot!
Our trip to visit Julia was great, she is doing well though life is stressful and challenging as a student and sailor. Her cabin which she shares with two other gals is tiny. If you haven't checked out her blog lately you'll find a few updates. She is now in Senegal participating in a service project with an orphanage and school.
Gail, you are a natural blogger! Thanks for keeping our eyes open and us in your lifes.
Stacey
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