Ah to be young again! One of the many sidelights of the US Social Forum.

I swung by the encampment this evening as the sun lay low on Detroit. Enjoy.
Definitely the 'money' shot of my excursion. The glorious First Presbyterian Church bathed in the last rays of the sun. Unfortunately I only had my iPhone camera.


The ruins of the Eddystone and Palms Hotels form the back drop here.


Texting home. Letters are a thing of the past.


Backdrop is Addison Apartments.


This group was sitting in front of the Cass Cafe. They had bicycled in from upstate NY across Canada. What happened at the bridge? "It sucked". They had to hire a truck to carry their bikes over.


Sorry to disappoint those on the right. No American flags burning here. No hammers and sickles. Just Stars and stripes forever. This is America too.