Hi there,
Its Niko again.
I am still here and want to give you the next update.
Since I wrote the last story some time went by. In the
meantime I’ve picked up Sophia (you know her already…) from the airport. I had
roadtrips to up north and to Chicago. We had a farewell party for one of my
roommates and at work we’re busy with planning our Frankfurt IAA dinner and
preparing AutoCom for the wintertime.
At the end of July I was on a trip to the Upper Peninsula.
That’s that part of Michigan that is almost Canada. Except for unbelievably
beautiful nature there is pretty much nothing up there. Even no cellphone
service. But that’s exactly what’s interesting. We went to the pictured rocks. A
riff-shore on Lake Superior that’s really worth seeing it. Some
travel-magazines even voted it as a secret tip for USA visitors and a must-see.
And I can only agree. Look at the pictures and see for yourself.
Up there was also the location for Kid Rock’s musicvideo
“Born Free”. And we were exactly at that beach, enjoing the weather and
swimming in Lake Superior.
August started with two new roommates in our house. We have
another German and a Canadian guy living with us now. It took a little while to
get used to it but it works out pretty good now.
The first week in August was also the first week at work
together with Sophia. I hope that I did a, at least not too bad of a job to
show her how AutoCom works. At the moment we are busy with planning an event
for one of our clients in October. I’m doing some smaller graphic work for them
and in our meetings we can share ideas and work out a plan to make the clients
happy.
The third weekend in August was one of the automotive
highlights of the year. Woodward dreamcruise!
Thousands of classic cars came to the Detroit area to be
part of that event. There is pretty much no organization, everyone just drives
up and down Woodward Avenue and shows his car. We had very good weather that
days and we were able to walk there from our house, so those days were really nice. I
took a couple of pictures, of course :)
That was also the last weekend Lukas and Eileen were in Detroit. They flew to California on vacation. I won't see them again in the U.S. but I'm pretty sure we'll keep in touch back in Germany.
Together with my roommate Jon I’ve been to a Kid Rock live concert
last week. He was in Detroit for two weeks, played 10 shows in a row and all of
them were sold out. Luckily we were able to buy tickets through a
reselling-platform online.
The concert was at the DTE Energy music theatre. An open air
theatre. All day long it was super rainy, I was 100% sure that we’ll get wet
during the show. But – Kid Rock has obviously a good relationship to the
weather-god – we stayed dry and enjoed live music under a blue sky.
I didn’t expect that, but Kid Rock is an excellent musican.
This guy can play multiple instruments and has a unique voice!
Finally I made it to my first rock concert in rock city –
even if the Kid is now more into country the evening was great!
Last weekend I had a long drive to do – I visited family
friends in the Chicago area. I saw them for the first time in 15 years. Now
they have 3 nice kids, a beautiful house and a funny dog. We were on a lake,
driving a boat, went out for dinner and met up with their grandparents who
stayed in my hometown in Germany a looooong time ago. That was one of my
highlights so far in the U.S.
Now I am preparing my last few weeks here in Michigan,
planning what to do before I leave and trying to enjoy the last days of summer.
It’s getting chilly in the morning and evening, so you can already guess that fall
will be around soon.
I’ll be in Chicago for one more weekend helping my roommate
to move there. I’ll keep you updated!
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