Its Cold in Michigan

What is interesting so far about Birmingham, MI? The question I am asking myself while sitting in a Panera Bread (a favorite place to hold up in when on the road). Yes, when I do these classes I always find a Panera close by, that has always been the case, not sure why. It must have to do with the economy of always being in a area where there are dozens of strip malls and Targets close by, I love Target and can do with out strip malls but they coexist anyway. They can't really live without each other in the end, they might both die if the other did not exist.

So far my hotel room is very nice. It is a Holiday Inn Express that was converted from some other older Hotel building. The building is most likely a construction from the 40's (will have to look it up, first guess). It is a five or four story building located on the edge of what I think is the downtown. There are various shops and restaurants, there is this nice little Dairy Bar right around the corner, people walking about, yadda yadda yadda...... I dont know the whole story yet. I am still sitting in Panera sipping my Light Roasted Coffee miles away from there (I through have a car). Maybe this afternoon I will go back to the hotel and just venture out from there, walk until I get lost and have to ask one of the polite locals how to get back to my room. 

I will say this, people's foot wear does differ from my southern delights. People wear rugged shoes around here, I see a lot of hiking type shoes and leather boots. I have also noticed a increasing number of split level architecture in housing, must be a cold weather thing. Cold weather climates approach building with a different mind set. In fact, I would rather have a builder from Northern Wisconsin than Texas any day. O yeah, another thing that was interesting - I have been using Four Square to check in and all of a sudden this girl from Birmingham started to follow me on Twitter. I wonder if it is like one of these accounts that follows you anytime you tweet about their town. For example if you tweet that you are in Atlanta, GA, I will bet you that at least three businesses will follow you for your stay there. This happens to me every where I go, some business tries to promote them selves based on my location via twitter, interesting world we live in these days.

I will say that it feels different up here in northern United States. It was 30 degrees when I got into my car this morning, yeah, and that is warmish for around here. There is a nice warming trend that will take the temperatures into the forties for the next few days of my stay. It is practically spring time and there is still excess snow drifts in the backs of parking lots. As I drove through town to my Panera Bread I wondered what it would be like to live an entire winter here..... I bet it would be interesting. I am very interested in what these winter conditions do to people's mind sets. Does it make them harder individuals, what is different at the core of these people, how does being cold all winter effect who we are? Not that they are cold all winter, I know it is warm indoors, but it gets freaking down right cold. But this is just Detroit, it get colder every step north you go.

Gotta Go, will post something later I think.