I’m sure this list will change a lot over the next few weeks… but as of right now these are my summer goals.

• read as many books as possible on the Lost Book Club list
• picnic and read all day in Bishop Park (pictured above)
• do as much volunteering as possible
• break in to the Detroit train station before it gets demolished
• have a (cheesey) scary movie marathon
• go to New Orleans to volunteer
• go canoeing in Ann Arbor
• take a road trip anywhere
• learn to make frushi
• go camping
• finish crocheting my blanket
• go to Chicago with a lot of people
• find a new hobby
• spend as much time with friends as I can before heading back to GR for a year

I’m very upset because yesterday the Detroit city council voted for an emergency demolition of the Michigan Central Depot in Detroit.

Event though this building has ben vacant for 21 days longer than I’ve been alive, I’m still infatuated with it.


Rising high above the surrounding area, the old train station is thought of as an eye sore by most but I see it more as a statue. A statue standing to represent Detroit’s glorious past… and hopefully its glorious future. I love nothing more to catch a quick glimpse of the train station while driving through Detroit. In that instant, I imagine the bustling station in its heyday. Floods of people coming in and out of the station. Trains sounding their whistle as a final call for passengers. And I picture my grandma waving goodbye to a loved one as a train pulls away (although I’m not even sure she utilized the trains when she was growing up in Detroit). The train station, even in its current state, reminds me that the city wasn’t always like this and that there still it hope.

The demolition project “most be shovel-ready in 120 days” and completely gone within the next 18 months so that doesn’t leave me very much time to make my first and last trip into the train station. Anyone want to join me? It will be an adventure for sure.


SOURCE: Detroit council votes to demolish Michigan Central Depot (The Detroit News)