Art and Cigars and Salsa

Toledo Day 3 (and Detroit):

 A beautiful day. Finally. It was either cold or rainy until this point. Nothing follows a night at a party like a day wandering around looking at apples. Seriously. Fruit everywherrreeeee! Garden of Eden? Heck no. Just Detroit. I'm sure that was everyone's second guess. Either way, a visit to the Eastern Market had a lot of things going on. Mostly fruit and vegetables but even art, barbeque, and some live music. Eastern Market is an area in Detroit where on Saturdays, vendors crowd the “sheds”, sidewalks, and empty spaces to sell everything from salsa to art. I ate everything.

We kicked off the whole Eastern Market situation by downing barbeque and drinking beer. There was an older gentleman throwing out some Waylon or Hank Jr. songs the entire time. Good food. Good music.  I certainly can't complain. I also purchased a cool piece of art from a printing workshop/shop called Signal Return Press. Signal Return also gives classes and workshops on various printing techniques. Once you attend two classes, you can use their workshop for free. I can dig it. (Pictures to come later as it is packaged for travel.)

 

I also scored a cool shirt from a screen printing group who sells their merchandise through The Detroit Mercantile Co. Check out some information on the group here. It's a YouTube video. Not going to lie, I did not watch it.

 

 

We shot back to Toledo after the Market started packing up and followed up with an evening of mojitos, cigars, and random conversation at Tres Belle in Perrysburg, Ohio. Finished up with a visit to some pizza joint called Homeslice for pizza, beer, and a DJ playing some sweet nineties songs.

 

Lesson Learned: don't drink a lot of beer that is 10% alcohol.

Overall, I'd rate it a pretty solid day.