michigan

Seeing as Detroit has just been named the most dangerous city in America, this little entry serves as a kind of homage to my homeland...the land of some of america's best sports teams, worst roads, capital of cars and highest ratio of violent crimes, muggings, rapes and aggravated assaults. I don't make this stuff up. read for yourself:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900134.html

But i really can't complain; i'm a suburban yob. my parents heard the word detroit and covered my ears. I got lost in the car there once and nearly wept.

So i'll just get on with the journal entry, which has little to do with detroit and more to do with the rest of the great state of michigan. I almost forgot that i went home for ten days in august. between not writing my dissertation, working at starbucks and more not writing my dissertation I took a detour home, with Dave, to see friends, family and the elusive sun that people in the rest of the world said was shining. and indeed it was.

The trip was one part college reunion in multiple ways, three part family/friends reunion and many parts frozen strawberry margarita reunion. We spent the first saturday home driving up I-75 to a sorority sister's wedding in Traverse City and then spent the next day "hauling" 55mph on M127 back through Mt. Pleasant, the first time back to my alma mater since I graduated. And other than daily trips to dairy queen, Royal Oak and Rochester park, nothing too excitingly eventful happened. I did get to meet my new puppy, Winston, and i became a minor master of Bomberman and Cow Racing on the Wii and there were Katie's birthday margaritas...so generally it was really nice to be home--a place I associate with permanently being a child. No thinking allowed.

how nice.


small traverse city beach


marina in tc


The Bird! my favourite college bar in downtown mt pleasant


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home


dave at stoney creek metropark


family!


puppy!