We swear! It’s bigger in person!

Today was a good day. We left our awesome Victorian hotel on Ferry Street behind. (pictured to the left) we promptly drove to Dearborn, Michigan to tour the Rouge Factory at Ford and visit the Ford Museum. The Rouge factory would have been nice, seeing as they made it out to be the factory of the future. It would have been awesome if they were actually making something at this “factory of the future”. Alas, all the workers had been laid off since early june because the trucks they were making at the Rouge plant were just not selling. In fact, nothing with four wheels is selling. Right now, this super green gem of the future isn’t even doing anything. It’s just sitting there, taking up space, wasting electricity with the lighting, not even making any gas-guzzling trucks. I’d post a picture of this depressing sight, but cameras are forbidden on the factory floor, as they might capture workers in “compromising positions” as one employee put it. “Especially the female employees, you know, bending over to screw something in… we don’t want them to be photoshopped and up on youtube, you know?”

YEAH, like I’m gonna do that. Who wants to see brawny babes sprawled over an F-150 Chassis with a riveter? You know, on second thought, keep that to yourself.

Next stop was the ford museum. Not just cars, oh, no. planes, trains, cars, furniture. Anything henry himself could get his hands on and put into a museum. Kennedy’s limo? Got it. Original Mustang Mach 1 concept? Got it. The Allegheny? Yup. That’s stuffed into the warehouse too. Quite, quite large in fact. Those of you who know me in person know that I’m no shortie. I’m 6’4.5” and this engine was MASSIVE. The little sister of the Union Pacific “Big Boys”, the Allegheny was still quite massive. Used to haul coal in huge 150+ car trains from the Allegheny mountains to the factories that used them. Huge things. Massive. No other words.

When we left there, we headed over to our hotel (not nearly as nice as the Inn on Ferry Street), there! Over on the left! A mass of old Detroit metal! I must! MUST! Stop to take a few pictures!

Yep, a local car club was meeting. We stopped in with our Sebring and my camera. The cars? Awesome. The pictures? Great. The people? Nice. There was one car that caught my eye –a 1955 Ford Fairlane convertible. In pink. With black trim. Owned by a nice little old lady. In pink. With pink trim.

I got a couple of really nice shots from the trip, and uploaded some to Flickr. here's the link:

[Flickr Photos]

enjoy!