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
  12. 2026 May/+

 

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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:

This was taken back on my first cell phone, that simple little flip one which could only handle a handful of low-res photos.

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Zoo:

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Roaming:

Still not sure WTF was up that mutant who didn’t think to let me know it had such major issues, but… I guess this trip/encounter was just to show me this city, like all the others, needs to be completely redone.  So be it.

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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:

  • Kitch-iti-kipi, Michigan’s largest natural freshwater spring, colorful blue-green water open-middle boat/raft/barge:
    —FB vid
    –comment 1:  “(speaking) As a local[,] don’t go [there]; [it] is gross and filled with garbage[.]  unattended children have been known to be carried away by mosquitoes”
    –comment 2:  ” “Yeah[,] we don’t allow you to enjoy it but if you pay us too much money we’ll take you on a very strict guided tour showing very little of what actually interests you”
    I should do their advertising.”
    —article showing overhead view; how tiny
  • 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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2026 May/+:

“In 2016, archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery beneath the waters of Lake Michigan—an ancient “Stonehenge” estimated to be over 9,000 years old. This submerged structure features a circular arrangement of stones alongside what appear to be ritual platforms—smooth, flat stones with central depressions. However, the true enigma lies in the carvings etched onto the stones.
The images depict creatures such as the cobra, mastodon, and megaloceros—species that either never inhabited North America or vanished long before this structure’s estimated age. These puzzling depictions raise profound questions: how did such images come to be inscribed here, and what knowledge did the creators possess?
The discovery challenges conventional narratives about human history and suggests the possibility that ancient civilizations may have been far more advanced and interconnected than previously thought. For now, the Lake Michigan “Stonehenge” remains a tantalizing mystery, urging us to reconsider what we know about the distant past.”

 

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