At the Metro Lodge motel in the outskirts of Detroit there is no WiFi. In fact, there are no wireless networks in range at all, whether open or protected. A first time that’s happened since we’ve been here. This is appropriate for an area where people bum you for food on the street, the bedcovers have quite a few cigarette burns on them and the guy who parked next to us (over the dead cat) went into a room downstairs where a fat naked black woman stood waiting in the doorway.

I don’t like Detroit much.