Detroit

<-- Ford passed the 20 million mark a while back. At the River Rouge factory tour.

Landed in Detroit amoung the piles of snow. Nice change from the heat. In the morning it was about 5 deg, and snowing sideways with a nasty wind. Outside the hotel is the biggest carpark in the world surrounding the shopping centre. There are no footpaths, and we must look strange trying to walk along the road. We have no cold weather clothes with us, so we head into the shopping centre to get some.

Downtown looks like it must have been bustling in the roaring forties, but since no-one is buying American cars, its a ghost town. Most of the places on Michigan Ave are boarded up.

Monday is the Ford factory tour on the Rouge River near Dearborn. Ollie got very excited watching all the F-150's being made (about 60 per hour). The plant has solar panels, and some porous ashphalt. Being environmentally friendly is funny for a factory making gas guzzlers.