Early departure for Grand Rapids and a breakfast stop. We struggle to find diesel and grub - this ain't no tourist town. On to Dearborn for a tour of the Automotive Hall of Fame at the Ford factory - we can't find the similarly-named Motorsport Hall of Fame in nearby Novi, Michigan - has it closed?
On into Detroit through the grungy parts of town - this is everything you ever imagined only worse. Block after block of boarded-up buildings - the only operating establishments seemingly being porn or pawn shops and seedy gentlemen's clubs. Unmissable. We duck over the Ambassador Bridge at the border where Windsor, ON, seems like paradise. More pouring rain as we reach Toronto at 19:00. Quick pitstop for groceries and we are indoors before 20:00.
Listening to Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett: It's five o'clock somewhere; George Jones: White Lightning.
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New Amtrak President Joseph Boardman has a large task on his hands. I suggest he starts in Wildwood, Florida. While cruising the backroads n... -
Pic by Ron Stockey. We went to check out the Union Pearson Express, the new train linking downtown Toronto with the airport. PunchBuggy i... -
Two stories from the UK made the front page of Canada's National Post today - "seemingly staid British PM had steamy four-year affa...
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