Day 59 Cleveland-Detroit, USA

Well where do I start with Detroit. An experience I guess in a strange sort of way. For starters ive never known a place where 90% of the buildings are totally unoccupied or where shops don’t seem to exist downtown. Apart from the baseball and American football stadiums which are next door to each other, theres only a casino and a fairly large glass building owned by General Motors which compared to the othe buildings looks totally out of place. No offense to people that live here but it seems to me the best thing to do is blow it up and start again. The hotel we booked into the Ramada looked dodgy from the outside and even dodgyier on the inside or putting it mildly shithole sprung to mind. It was so bad that all 4 lifts packed up that night and we were on the 15th floor. Although as it was we did find something to do on the night and that was to watch my first live baseball game as the Detroit Tigers played the Cleveland Indians. Even though we only had a rough idea of the rules it was still something enjoyable to do. However it was really strange compared to going to a football match in England as the crowd were so quiet and there wasn’t any atmosphere at all which surprised me. Except for 2 crazy guys that seemed intent on starting a Mexican wave to no avail people were only interested in drinking and eating hot dogs. Still it was something different to experience that I wouldn’t see back home.