Day Five: Detroit

The getting lost bit is definitely going to be a "thing". Its just the same old story, so I'm not going to go into. After the third or fourth time its not really interesting any more.

Moving on, while I'm stopping in Detroit to see Jim Pool, I'm not staying with him. I understand, small house+ rambunctious kids= not good for company and no rest for me. Instead
I stayed with the Jeanie Wylie Community, an intentional community of people who decided to live together and focus on urban agriculture and hospitality. They’re a cool bunch of people, and the hospitality focus is really true, they’ve been awesomely gracious with letting me stay just like one of the community, if a temporary part.

Yesterday we cooked up some oatmeal with whatever fruits had been picked from the surrounding neighborhood, and I helped them trim a large tree that was blocking sunlight from their large subsistence garden.

My major experience with Detroit is a bustling subsistence farming community in the heart of the city. Kinda neat.

And a really, really crappily laid out road system.