Detroit…home of Dora the Destroyer and the Model T

May 14, 2011: I am still in Allen Park spending time with family while touring around visiting friends trying to discover new places and activities in the process. From seeing city streets with crucified baby dolls to accidently stumbling on the Detroit Hoedown where the people watching extravaganza drew a large amount Eminem-like gangsta cowboy wannabes and prostitute-like high boot wearing hoes to one convenient location.

Detroit and its surrounding area continues to keep me somewhat busy, learning that some of the best activities are those that are those that take a little research. There is nothing better than watching ink stained women on skates at a roller derby supporting names such as Honey Suckit, Dora the Destroyer and Elle McFearsome. There position requirements range from issuing solid bruise producing, breast popping, skate lifting blocks with other individuals whose objective is to avoid these women as they attempt to slink though the odd mix of Amazonian-like women and Prom queens on a circular cement flat track to accumulate points in a smack down fashion.

Other worthwhile use of my irreplaceable breaths the past few weeks was visiting Greenfield Village which is an enormous outdoor museum that helps me appreciate innovation while driving around in a 1914 Ford Model T. Some of the machinery I saw that was supposed to represent the old days, though sadly looked more like the modern days in countries throughout Asia and South America.

With 1.5 months left in the US before returning to South America, I realize that my vision of what was going to take place here was more of a dream than reality, with nobody to blame but myself. People are complicated and that certainly includes…me.