Michigan

I’ve only had a brief visit here, so it’s time I right that by plotting all its best places and ancient sites for my return/s.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Phase 1
  2. Phase 2
  3. Phase 3
  4. Arrival (Images Begin)
  5. Zoo
  6. Roaming
  7. Best Hotels
  8. Nicest Neighborhoods
  9. Vegan Restaurants and Shops
  10. Ancient Ruins
  11. Other Sites

 

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Phase 1:

My first Middle Eastern girlfriend was here; an Iraqi-American whose family had moved to Detroit, she volunteered to be my tour guide and more as I oriented to this pleasantly chilled lake-side realm.  Having worn my green undershirt and issued ballistic Wylie-X sunglasses, the Muslim shop-owners were not at all happy to be serving me; I must have refreshed their all-too-recent memories of the ongoing war and borderline invasion of their homelands across the ocean.  I got more than a few dirty looks and hesitantly handed-over food items from girls manning the ice-cream bins and cashier registers.  I remained as polite as can be, though, and didn’t fool around with my Iraqi fuckbuddy until we were back in my hotel room.

 

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Phase 2:

Michigan is a two-peninsula divided state that borders all but one of the five Great Lakes.  I’m planning a return-route that takes me back out from now-familiar Detroit to the rest of the state, and I’ll likely be zigzagging through all its other major cities and towns, then heading directly back so as not to go over the same streets or highways twice.  Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. Alpena is the home of the world’s largest cement plant. Rogers City boasts the world’s largest limestone quarry. Elsie is the home of the world’s largest registered Holstein dairy herd.  I’m going to work all of those and more into my itinerary, hopefully establishing some great and lasting business contacts at each in the process.

 

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Phase 3:

Madonna, Kate Upton, and Jude Demorset are all from here.  (I’m not really that into any of them, but still; worth mentioning.)  Since an exotic sexy punk-rocker girl was the first to invite me here, and since she greeted me in a miniskirt and tube-top, and took me straight to bed, I was moderately satisfied, and willing to give Michigan plenty more opportunities to impress me.  When its finest girls open their homes and offices to me in support of my expeditions and other work, I’ll return, stay for a while, and get to know all the rest this state wants to show me.

 

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Arrival:

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Zoo:

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Roaming:

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Best Hotels

Royal Park Hotel – Rochester:

(photos coming soon)

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more TBA

 

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Nicest Neighborhoods:

tba

 

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Vegan Restaurants and Shops:

Ann Arbor:

  • Detroit Street Filling Station
  • Seva Ann Arbor

Birmingham:

  • Planthropie: Plant based Dessert & Cheese Bar
  • Try It Raw

Canton:

  • Veg-O-Rama

Dearborn:

  • Unburger

Detroit:

  • Detroit Vegan Soul
  • Fire Ass Vegan
  • Freya
  • Seva Detroit
  • Trap Vegan

Ferndale:

  • Spacecat V-stro

Flint:

  • Sweet Peaces 100% VEGAN Pantry

Grand Rapids:

  • Gaia House Cafe

Lansing

  • Veg Head

Monroe:

  • Misty’s Plant Based  Foods

Okemos:

  • VEG-N

Rochester:

  • Chomp

Royal Oak:

  • Cacao Tree Cafe

Ypsilanti:

  • Gora’s Grill

 

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Ancient Ruins:

more TBA

 

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Other Sites:

  • Pyramid Point, including Pyramid Overlook, and Pyramid Trailhead:  unsure; discovered while searching for like-named site in California; investigate in person at some point

 

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