🇺🇸 Travel Diary: Motor City Misadventures & Surprises

✈️ First Impressions: "Is This a Ghost Town?" Our flight from NYC landed in a snow-rain mix, setting the mood as Bus #261 crawled past: Abandoned factories with broken windows Miles of vacant lots (where whole neighborhoods once stood) $2 fare: The only steal in this post-industrial landscape 🏙️ Downtown: Safe But Sparse Skyscrapers from better days (now 50% empty) Grocery struggles: Whole Foods: $9 avocados 🥑 Meijer Rivertown: Hidden snack heaven (stocked up on Twinkies & Cheetos) 🚗 Quirks & Perks Highway lanes wider than Texas egos (zero traffic!) No front license plates—apparently Michigan flex 🚘 People Mover: 75¢ sky train with Canada views (rode it twice like tourists) 🌭 Food Scene Coney Island dogs: Chili-smothered heartburn in a bun 🌶️ Domino’s DIY pizza: Strangely better than Amsterdam’s (fight me, Dutchies) 🍕 🏆 Must-Sees We Missed Guardian Building’s gold elevators ✨ Comerica Park’s hockey bar (free entry = Midwestern nice) Ford/GM museums (next time… maybe) 🛌 Airport Hotel Hack $89/night with shuttle (cheaper than downtown parking) #DetroitDiaries #RustBeltRealness #NotWhatWeExpected 🏗️❄️