Get your motor running
Trip Start
Aug 30, 2009
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Trip End
Sep 29, 2009
Where I stayed
Detroit, Michigan
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
London Ontario to Detroit city
Morning breakfast is served in the sunroom next to the lobby. They provide us with cereal, sausages scrambled eggs and toast plus coffee
We head off towards Detroit Canada is not much different in looks to the united states, except for a plethora of Tim Horton donut and coffee take always. We have also noticed take away chip vans next to service stations usually an old school bus converted with an awning out the side where you get served. They have a couple of picnic table for you to sit at. Just before we left Canada we spotted one of these and had to stop and try. The chips were great with brown hot gravy on the side. Next we had to spend all our Canadian change so off to the servo next door to fill up on candy (sorry I am turning into a yank I will have to change my vocablury on the plane back home).
About 10 k's up the road we join the queue to enter America. 1 hour later we are at the booth with a similar stern guy at first asking questions and then 2 minutes later wanting to know all about our trip. He asks us for our rego papers and passports for ID. We head off and about 500 yards (sorry Metres) Cath asks me if I've got the rego papers I say no and pull over. What else to do but to walk back to the checkpoint. I get about 200 metres/yards when I am stopped (it took them a while to notice me). I am informed that this is a secure area and told to drive back around to the entrance to Canada. Somehow we find our way back under the bridge and park outside a boom gate. I am then escorted up to the admin area where they try to locate our papers. Start talking to one of the guys there telling him where we are going he says he wouldn't drive 2 hours to see his sister. So we have left another one impressed.
We have already got a room booked at the Super 8 Motel Sterling Heights Detroit and we check in about 4 o'clock. This gives us time to do some washing (sorry Cath did the washing) while I went and tried to get the drivers seat fixed in the car (it is collapsed on one side and 1 mount is broken) and also to get some beer. I find a liquor store on Brougham Ave so think that's pretty cool. But I can't get the seat fixed.
Cath and I walk up the road a100 metres and find a family restaurant (like a diner no alcohol but wholesome cheap food). Good food again. We tried to take a photo of someone smoking in the restaurant as this is so foreign to us but I almost got caught so you will just have to remember the eighties in Australia to understand.
Off to bed
A nice relaxing day with a bit of time to catch up at the end
