Sidelight to trip-
My sister in law became a high-power attorney at GM working right down in the middle of downtown Detroit.
Thinkin 7 years ago....
She gets a place out NW just off Woodward, near the zoo, where it's nice n clean. The wedding was held in a place -forgetnames- of TWO huge "Ladies Society" theaters moved from the site of the new baseball field and put together just north of greektown, with major restaurant concentration. So the kids remember the wedding and other trips to Detroit. So about 3 years ago the sis-in-law, who was involved in import duty law, got annoyed the she was the token female hottie Stanford lawyer in an old-boys club. And she went to Chrysler!
So after the museum, I head west, and both kids instantly asked, "where are we going? We're not going downtown?"
So we do and stopped in greektown, free parking on Sunday, ate at Fishbone...
Steaks, seafood and Sushi.
I had a mess of Lake Perch.
After a carwash, we headed back on 94 west. I don't know if MSP still uses Chargers but I couldn't figure out what speed to go because no one wanted to pass me. Even out of state drivers would hang way back trying to figure out if I was undercover. If I wanted to hang back one truck length behind a truck and gain 2 free mpg, it would simultaneously freak out the truck driver and pile up cars in the left lane.....then someone would merge ahead of the truck and......so I hadda start steppin out some of the time just to keep the road from clogging.
The car was very impressed with the visit to the site of its mfr, and the drive helped the now-spinning No 2 exhaust valve bang the carbon off the seat.
And finally, something I personally love about Detroit. These people know which side their bread is buttered on.
The vast majority of vehicles are not "foreign names". There's a few, sure, but I respect Detroit as a place where they still understand you can't eat your foreign csr when you're laid off of "released".
