“Danger: Reality Ahead”:The Time Travel Post

You can’t have a road trip without some time travel. This would be like having pizza without the sauce, winter without a wood stove or fire place, or a rock concert without musicians. You must stop and see old friends along the way.

Before I get to today, let’s start with yesterday.

We left our hotel - Holiday Inn and Suites, somewhere in Ohio, not far from Pittsburgh- around 9:30/10:00AM. Destination Detroit

Yesterday’s Playlist included:

My City Was Gone by Pretenders; Ohio by the Black Keys; The Heart of Rock n’ Roll by Huey Lewis; Look at Miss Ohio by Gillian Welsch; some Motown (various artists), and some REM (because why not).

Once we arrived at the Trumbull-Porter Hotel in Detroit around 2:45 (lots of bathroom stops along the way), my friend Allison, who I have not seen in 31 years, met us at the courtyard of the hotel. John Mark kindly hung out with Nora and Hazel at the hotel for a couple hours, and I went with Allison to have a bite to eat and a drink at her place.

The above photo was taken circa 7/30/2022 and August 1991.

This one was also taken around the same time periods.

Soundtrack to the meal: Nouvelle Vague. My first time hearing them, and definitely not my last!

After some catch up time with Allison, she and I went back to the hotel and hung out with Nora, Hazel, and John Mark in the courtyard for a bit. The folks who worked at the hotel were super nice - they attempted to play an outside movie, but were having trouble getting the screen down. Instead of the movie playing outside, they somehow played it through the tv (on channel 3, I think). So Nora and Hazel spent some time in our room, which had a patio that opened up right to the courtyard. They watched “Back to the Future.” While I stayed in the past for a bit.

Allison joined us for some coffee this morning, then we left our hotel around noon, with a stop at Third Man Records, before leaving Detroit. Now it is 1:53 - we are heading West.