Motown

I have never seen anyplace like Venice. The same goes for Detroit.

What's left of downtown shows evidence of the city's former grandeur, but it felt as though 1/4 of the lots were vacant, now filled with parking lots (for who?), trash, or both. Some empty lots have fences around them to prevent cars and trash from collecting and/or catching fire. I couldn't help but think how great it would be to move into and fix up one of the city's great old buildings. Too bad there's no money to be made there...

So we stopped for dinner, insisting on finding the most questionable looking bar possible (we weren't successful, the place was quite nice). Then we got back on the road, a krautcar amongst America's finest.