At the end of a poem or long book of poems or novels sometimes writers will add an envoi which is a stanza shorter than all the rest which concludes or summarizes what has happened. I know what you’re probably thinking, what does an envoi have to do with this blog, or the trip as […]

To be honest, I kind of wanted to go home. I felt sort of like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz at the end, where she wants more than anything else to go home. But it’s a bittersweet goodbye because she has to say goodbye to all of the friends she met and grew connections […]

The morning unlike the last was terribly hot. We got to sleep in until 9:00 a.m. which was a nice change. We rode on the Detroit monorail, called the People Mover, which took us around the city after breakfast. We were challenged to meet more people. It was a little shaky, but we got a […]