Day 14 Tour de Troit

Oh no! KT and I got into the car this morning and drove. What?! Drove? Yes, if you had read the first post carefully, our car free commitment was only for trips of 20 miles or less. We went about 40 miles which is double 20. Two weeks without a car! It's too bad that our fridge door popped open a couple nights back and I found it open in the morning. Oh no! It detracts from the greenity of our last two weeks.

We went to lovely Detroit this morning to participate in the Tour de Troit. It was a fun and easy paced 30 miles. We originally weren't going to attend because transporting the tandem seemed to be a nightmare. It fit nicely without its wheels from front to rear window in KT's car. I sat in the back seat behind KT so it felt like a taxi ride with a tandem as the other passenger. That tandem, it intruded into my personal space bubble.

Pictures of the first half of the ride are posted. The fun part about being the stoker is that I can go hands free.

Michigan Central Station
The tour packet marks this building as the most photographed ruin of Detroit.

Beginning of the tour

This is Eric, KT's boss from Fisker. He's pretty funny and likes things like KT does.

This is Steve, another fellow Fisker.
He chopperized his bike himself a few years back. Also a funny guy.

So many buildings in the Midwest are made from brick. This one even had brick windows.

Hello Church. I wanted to your steeple.

Traffic came to a halt.

More bikers across the street.

Polk-dot house in the Heidelberg Project. These houses were the canvases for some fun street art.

Those shopping carts are pretty high up. Once stuffed animals are faded and worn by the elements, they all look very similar.


Even the trees were decorated.

Stuffed animal house

Taxi house. The tour was police exported.

KT on the water front. Belle Isle is in the background.

KT on Steve's crazy bike