US Travels – Part Two: Detroit, not really, and only a little bit of politics

The second leg of the business trip part of my US travels involved going to our office in a town called Plymouth, Michigan. Some 35 km away from Detroit.

The flight to Detroit from Cincinnati was short and uneventful. Since Detroit does not have the reputation to be the safest city in the world, I was a bit concerned and had ordered kind of a limo service to pick me up. My driver turned out to be a gentleman from Bangladesh who came to America 23 years ago. So much for immigrants. He complained that thanks to Uber business is slow for the pro drivers.

It was biting cold in Michigan but no snow yet. My hotel turned out to be a blessing, since it shared the same parking lot as a Trader Joe’s supermarket and a hot sandwich joint. So carless me was able to buy some food. Up a side road, the way lead to a Panera Bread shop and a Target supermarket. On my Sunday off, I dared to venture to the Target on foot and did some shopping with lunch at Panera Bread. Needless to say that I was the only person far and wide who was walking. There are no pedestrian pavements either and you have to walk on the street.

Target is not high class material when it comes to clothing, but you gotta take what you can get and I must admit that I enjoyed shopping for pants my size… an impossibility in Japan