Whenever I go home, people always ask me what I do. If you were a Torontonian coming to visit me, I would likely bring you to the:
- Eastern Market on a Saturday. It gives people the impression that Detroit is a thriving city.
- Record shopping if you’re into that. Apparently vinyls are about 1/10th of what they cost in Toronto. Lots of old school funk and soul from the Motown era.
- Slows BBQ for some tasty, tasty North Carolina BBQ.
- Detroit Institute of the Arts (DIA). I get in for free because I have a Oakland county address 🙂
- A Pistons basketball game because tickets are only $15. If you’re home team is playing
- Out for Mexican food. Toronto doesn’t have good Mexican food
- The Arab food scene here is equally as amazing
- Outlet shopping is always better in the US. Just make sure you stay for a bit otherwise you’ll get hit with taxes crossing the border.
- Fancy shopping is equally as impressive.
- Out for some great craft beer. Michigan has an amazing craft beer scene.
- Down to the Riverwalk so we can point to Windsor. Can also walk into the RenCen to check out the new cars.
- Checking out the city from the People Mover (mugger mover, as they call it here) is Disneyland like experience.
- There’s a decent salsa scene (with real Latin people!) here. We could go dancing.
- If it’s in the fall, we could go to a cider mill and get cider and doughnuts. It’s kind of a thing here.
- Drive along 8-mile and count how many strip clubs we see.
- Drive along Telegraph / Woodward and count how many burned down buildings we see.
- Downtown Royal Oak, Downtown Ferndale, Downtown Rochester Hills have nice walkable areas which are a departure from the constant driving here. It’s no Toronto/Detroit, but each has its charm.
- Ann Arbor is a little far away, but college towns are always great. Could probably just walk into a random frat party there.
- Hiking, hunting, mountain biking and camping are on my list of things to do.
And much more to come!