Still here. Every once in a while, for various reasons, I have to travel. When I travel I try to update the blog but sometimes scheduling won’t allow it. And, for PerSec reasons, I usually don’t mention I’m leaving town until after I return.
So…where was I? America’s first post-apocalyptic city: Detroit. Which, as it turned out, wasn’t as inhospitable as I thought but, then again, I was probably only seeing the better less bad parts of it.
And, as always, flying sucks and the grepos at TSA will be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution gets here. That and the idiots who recline their chairs all the way. And people who travel with babies. And ESPECIALLY people who bring a sandwich onto the plane and funk up the atmosphere next to me with pepperoni or whatever the heck was in that thing. C’mon people, have a little consideration for your fellow passengers who have to sit next to you.
Good reason to eat some beans before traveling . Cut the cheese and let them bitch.
You should have been there when Thug Master K ran the place. It hai ed it’s appropriate nickname of ” Detoilet”.
Or Gualtlieter announced recently that Detoilet will be the first smart city in America?. How. Smart cities need smart residents. That isn’t Detoilet. Or as some call it. Anbar Province. I was down there in 2019. Finally made it to Comerica Park. Somewhere there will be two offices for the World Economic Fund in the state. Yesterday it was announced that the Chinese battery plant at big Rapids was a no go. They weren’t pleased with the pushback from the locals who did not want their country run by elementals of the Chinese Communist Party running their country. Bet Wretched Gretch was pissed. I’m sure like the Biden’s she has business dealings with the Peoples Republic of China. Biggest concern. The plant would have sat astride one of the biggest watersheds in Michigan. You see the Reds don’t care about being stewards of the land. They pollute everything they touch. Detoilet is the capital of the Bolshevik Corner.
It is a glaring example of what happens when a large city is hit with a Liberal weapon of mass destruction.
In 1950 Detoilet was the richest large city in the nation. Highest median income. Best schools with a 98.7 % graduation rate. It was a clean well run city. I remember a trip to the Detroit Zoo when I was a kid.
These days. I will only travel there if heavily armed. In an armoured vehicle with plenty of help. I stay the hell put of that place.
But glad you made it home in one piece.
Yep babies and small children suck on planes. I always carried ear plugs!
Can’t handle pepperoni? I had a woman sit next to me who pulled 4 containers out of her bag and had a full Indian meal.
Lol
I was in Detroit once.
Once.
I am SO sorry for you.
I saw a photo essay or blog (can’t remember which) that showed some of the abandoned downtown buildings from the inside and man, those places must’ve been impressive when built and in use. An old theater or opera looked like an art deco masterpiece. I think there was an old train station and maybe a library. All architecturally stunning. Such a shame they look like a bombed out nuclear wasteland now.
Yes, they were called movie palaces for reason,they were also set up for live entertainment and would host bands or plays and were economically viable at 1000+ seats. Look at the 250 seat minnie theatres(multiplex) that are economically untenable and unfit for anything else.
So weird. I remember as a child traveling halfway across the country on a Trailways bus from Texas to California. I enjoyed it – the food was eaten off the bus mainly. I remember one time the bus driver stopping and telling the passengers consuming beer on the bus was prohibited – nobody said a word but about 10 minutes into the ride, that little can was heard and again, no one said a thing.
My brother and I were teenagers, sent to my Aunt’s in San Diego and no one thought it strange two kids on their way traveling. It was pretty cool and I saw a lot of land. Later on, Amtrak supplied some adventure and I got to see some backcountry no one else sees unless you are riding the train.
I don’t ever see myself traveling to cities in such decay so have no comments good or bad about it.
Remember when air travel was special? The cattle cars they have devolved into are a conditioning methodology to get the sheeple ready for the culling.
I’m old enough to remember those ‘special’ days of flight when men wore suits and the ladies dresses. I was just a kid back then, but I remember my mom made sure I wore my Sunday best when flying.
Maybe the riots, looting and arson are the planned steps to depopulate city cores to push obsolete farm equipment out to ‘burbs(sec8 instead of urban housing-after proper conditioning of course). This may allow cheap purchase of urban areas for revitalization into 15 minute cities. Prep your AO with planning/development boards that preclude this detritus from being dumped on you.
Haven’t flown commercially for many years. Refuse to deal with the TSA. If I go anywhere, I drive.
I’ll try to make a long story short, but the upshot is that in the mid-1990s I crossed into Canada at Detroit with a .38 Special in a tackle box in my trunk … and made it. I was a magazine travel writer, picked up a young local guide at the Convention and Visitors Bureau and he started showing me downtown Detroit. He routed me to a tunnel and before I knew what was happening, we were in a line of cars crossing into Canada. At that point I just kept my mouth shut and said some very sincere silent prayers.
We made it across and back.Once back in the U.S., I told the young man about the revolver in my trunk. He literally turned white as a sheet and started shaking. When I dropped him off in front of his building, he still wasn’t talking very well and could barely walk. I’m sure he saw not only his career but his very life flash before his eyes. Ha!
Mo town
Ain’t
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I had to hit Detroitistan a couple times for business while living in Arlington Heights, outside Chicongo, i thought Cabrini Green area waas bad, got nuttin that shithole…
ps..yes, glad you made it..
flying sucks, though i went to nashville for IT gig, carried all manner of electronics and “other,” kit, that made it, no problems..Did get a wry comment about my ndustrial zip ties, I said for things that break, or unruly passengers..he dug my Flir Scout too…He laughed, fist bumped me, typed somethign into his terminal, and i had no issues anywhere else, none on the return trip…It’s like the E-4 tsa mafia got the word out or something…I did decline the electric vehicle…
“E-4 mafia”. Ha! Being an E-5 was the best! High enough to avoid most $#!t jobs while low enough to avoid responsibility. Then I got promoted…
Travel is good. Live a life worth protecting!
Grepos? I’ve not heard that term since the 1980s. Perfect description though.
Hope you got “Hazard Pay” during your stay. Seems all of the demoncat run cities have four things in common… crime, poverty, misery and despair.
Detroit is underrated, as are quite a few cities. I visited there a few times in the late 1990s, and it was a shithole, but no less of a shithole than my local cities. Detroit was just on a bigger scale. I made a few wrong turns there and discovered some “interesting” neighborhoods.
The city is working pretty hard to turn itself around. There are a lot of great things happening.
Would I live there? Sure, whatever. No problemo.
Would I choose to live there? No. I prefer rural.
Gotta stay flexible and look at every angle, though.
My best flight ever was when I got on a plane with a hot stromboli, fresh from a neighborhood Italian restaurant.