After a more or less enjoyable (how enjoyable can it really be to sit in a freezing bus with all your clothes on, your legs in angles not natural to any human being in order to sleep, and layovers involving getting off and on the exactly same bus in the (too) early hours) bus journey, the moment has come. Back again! Back in the Great Lakes State, home to Detroit the car capital, Travers City the cherry capital, and of course Constantine the seed corn capital. Allison picks me up from the bus station and we head to her house for her family reunion: Lots of people with the same last name, lots of beer, lots of food, and a slip'n'slide (explanation for those non-Americans in the small readership of this blog later on). After some
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