another trip.....................a picture out the window that shows the skyline. Detroit was a place that I had not been for a long time. Probably 20 + years. Even so I must have missed it last time as I just didn't remember the city. I did see the GM headquarters and it still stands as the central focus point of the skyline even though it sort of missed my focus in my own picture. The contrasts are not so different than a lot of other big "old" cities. The downtown has a monorail and a lot of effort to make it a destination that folks want to go and then as you go out of the downtown block after block of abandon project housing sits with windows out and no one living in the empty buildings.
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The return trip was on an airplane that was completely full and it was a long challenging flight. Sitting 4 rows from the front was like going to a movie. Next two me a very old women who had stuffed her oxygen machine under her set. It's battery ran down. It had to be changed and of course everyone on the plane had to use the rest room and the stewardess was firm that no one could since the seat belt sign was on and she just said no. On the other hand the passengers said they were going anyway. Course one could watch a movie on the I-Pad across the aisle or see the DVD's and I phones and games everywhere you looked. Free airplane cookies, something to drink and a line in the aisle.
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Monroe Street ran by the Hotel and the Casino and had some nice restaurants. The hotel was called "Greektown" and set firmly between the hotel and the Casino was the Greek Church which must have been the part of the expansion of this whole area.
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glad you made it back safe, sounds like a crazy flight!
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