Tour de Hood blog gets some international love

If you haven't checked out the Tour de Hood blog, then you're missing out. A man on a bike taking pictures of his travels. It's all the parts of Detroit you wish you could see, but don't. Even someone from British Columbia has found it. So, if you don't know, now you do.

Excerpt from On Biking:

I've always been interested to visit Detroit. Not only because the Pistons have always been my Team in basketball or the fact that I'm a car nut at heart, but also because it's a city with an interesting history. It's also a representation of the rise, and more recently, the fall of American industry. Detroit used to be a metropolitan city of 2 million people. Now, it's a city of 700,000. I've always liked to photograph, industrial landscapes, and the more abandoned and desolate, the better. This is also (perhaps strangely to some) part of the appeal for me as far as Detroit goes. But since I can't see myself traveling there any time soon, I travel there virtually every once in a while through http://tourdehood.wordpress.com/. It's one man's photographic documentation of his weekly rides through his beloved city.

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