We’re back in Canada! Jon and I crossed the border from Detroit to Windsor not too long ago. We had to pay 4 USD toll to come home.

Jon and I drove to Dearborn which is about 15 minutes from Detroit to see the Henry Ford Museum. We took the factory tour of the Rouge plant where we saw the construction of the Ford F150 trucks. The Rouge plant is special because it was the first plant to be “vertically integrated”. This means that the plant can process raw material, manufacture car parts and build the car all in one site. The tour consisted of 5 stations.

The first station was a video on the history of Ford. The second station was an artistic video of a Ford F150 being built. The neat thing about this station was that the screens were separated into several panels and surrounded us 360 degrees. Our chairs had the freedom to spin 360 degrees as well. However, as Jon pointed out, they mainly used 3 screens. They also sprayed us as the truck was being spray painted and used a variety of strobe lights to match the video. The third station was on an observation deck. It overlooked the whole plant. The roof of the buildings contains a plant that helps insulate the building, and absorb 60% of rain water.

The fourth station was the tour around the manufacturing plant. We saw the assembly of the windshield, headlights, seatbelt, door, stereo, headliner, and dashboard. We also saw how they put the cab (the front of the pickup truck) and the bed (back of the pickup truck) together. We saw how they tested the truck for performance and where the faulty ones went. It was very interesting. Jon was very pleased with the tour!

The last station was a showroom of the most famous cars built by ford. There were the Model A, Mustang, Thunderbird, and the 1949. We wanted a souvenir but everything was quite expensive. They had really neat utensils (fork, knife, and spoon) but on the other end were wrenches and pliers. There was also a belt made from a seat belt. Since we couldn’t afford anything, we made 2 penny pressed mustangs. We made 2 because the first one didn’t turn out so well.

We then drove around to find a oil change place but to no avail. We’ll get it done tomorrow as we’ve driven over 5000km. We went to Target and bought $60 worth of goodies. I bought a pair of shoes and rainboots because I don’t know where my citrus ones went. They had some cute dresses. However, when I would ask Jon for his opinion, he would say “yeah that would look nice...if you want to clean toilets”. Gosh. Never asking him for his opinion again. Jon bought brown flip flops to deter people from stealing them. Ha ha. We also bought water and 3 packs of parmesan goldfishes, Jon’s favourite.

We are now in London. We’re staying at Knight’s Inn which has a nice flat screen Samsung television. As we were driving here, we were listening to Slash featuring Adam Levine’s “Gotten”. I was singing along until Jon said “This is my favourite song to listen to... with earplugs”. Sigh.
We ate at a local Vietnamese restaurant. I ordered Pho with beef balls and Jon ordered lemon grass chicken on rice. The pho was okay. The soup didn’t taste like much but it tasted better with hoisin sauce. Jon’s dish was quite tasty.

When we returned to our accommodation, I was detagging Jon’s flip flops. As I was doing so, I noticed the words “Women” on them. Ha ha. Jon bought women flip flops. You can’t really tell because they are very generic looking. However, we should have known because this was in the women's section. Jon was saying that there is less space between the end of the flip flop to the back of his heel. Ha ha.

Also, there has been some concern about my one "black sock" in some of our photos. It's an ankle brace to support my ankle. I sprained it a few years ago as I have 2 left feet. so you'll notice that if we're doing lots of walking or hiking, I usually have it on.

Have a good night!