This summer survey is surely moving fast!
We flew around Michigan in 4 days before stopping for the night in St. Ignace, a tourist town on the northern side of the Mackinac Bridge. It was here were two very strange things happened. Number one: I walked into a bar and they had the largest TV dedicated to NESN. What? All the others were broadcasting Det v KC, naturally. The second oddity came when Russell, the ordinary seaman, decided that enough was enough with a toothache. He called every dentist in the area before one offered to pull it (that was Russell's wish anyway) for $75 at 9.30pm. Russell showed up at the bar 1 hour later with a bloody mouth full of gauze, a drink order and one less tooth. Bridgework is undoubtedly on the horizon. He's signing Captain up to remove the stitches in the coming days. Should provide mid-cruise entertainment, at the least.
Huron flew by just as fast and we stopped in Detroit for a full night this time. Max's friends came down and took us out to the Greek part of the city...where I saw...less people than I would have thought. Apparently, Mondays are 'stay home days' for (most) bums looking for handouts and citizens of Detroit alike...if a Tiger game were occurring, the city would 'have really been alive' said Detroit residents...I'm not so sure. I agree with Captain, take a look at Detroit/Hiroshima in 1945 and then now and try to guess which one got nuked. Most would guess Detroit.
Once we entered Erie, it was mandated by higher powers (who have indeed, just stepped onboard the ship during our stay in Detroit in a science crew turnover), that we do a nice and nerve wracking Triaxus (remember this character) through a very large algal bloom in the west basin of Erie at 3 m deep in 8m deep water. The water was thick as pea soup (or a 'shot of wheat grass' as the term was by others on the boat) with the plankton. Very cool stuff to be in the middle of, to be sure.
We flew around Michigan in 4 days before stopping for the night in St. Ignace, a tourist town on the northern side of the Mackinac Bridge. It was here were two very strange things happened. Number one: I walked into a bar and they had the largest TV dedicated to NESN. What? All the others were broadcasting Det v KC, naturally. The second oddity came when Russell, the ordinary seaman, decided that enough was enough with a toothache. He called every dentist in the area before one offered to pull it (that was Russell's wish anyway) for $75 at 9.30pm. Russell showed up at the bar 1 hour later with a bloody mouth full of gauze, a drink order and one less tooth. Bridgework is undoubtedly on the horizon. He's signing Captain up to remove the stitches in the coming days. Should provide mid-cruise entertainment, at the least.
Huron flew by just as fast and we stopped in Detroit for a full night this time. Max's friends came down and took us out to the Greek part of the city...where I saw...less people than I would have thought. Apparently, Mondays are 'stay home days' for (most) bums looking for handouts and citizens of Detroit alike...if a Tiger game were occurring, the city would 'have really been alive' said Detroit residents...I'm not so sure. I agree with Captain, take a look at Detroit/Hiroshima in 1945 and then now and try to guess which one got nuked. Most would guess Detroit.
Once we entered Erie, it was mandated by higher powers (who have indeed, just stepped onboard the ship during our stay in Detroit in a science crew turnover), that we do a nice and nerve wracking Triaxus (remember this character) through a very large algal bloom in the west basin of Erie at 3 m deep in 8m deep water. The water was thick as pea soup (or a 'shot of wheat grass' as the term was by others on the boat) with the plankton. Very cool stuff to be in the middle of, to be sure.
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