And so to Plymouth, MI. It's always good to get to travel up north in winter, to get the maximum experience of wind chill.

First stop after Detroit Metropolitan Airport? White Castle of course. Founded in 1921 in Kansas, they are still located mainly in the mid-west (our nearest one is 713 miles from here) so this was an opportunity to find out why Harold and Kumar were so crazy about them:

Turns out they taste pretty good, even if they are somewhat different from regular burgers:

Yes, they are what are now called sliders. In fact White Castle trademarked the term "slyder" and used it from 1985 (until 2009), way before the term was commonly used. People do love White Castle. This couple got married in a White Castle in New York City, which I thought was unusual:

But then I found this video, talking about a history of people getting married in their local White Castle!:

Plymouth, MI has a few notable people. Top of my list was Tom Hulce, Pinto from National Lampoon's Animal House:

Plymouth, MI is as cold as Alberta was this time last year. Being so close to Canada, they do have Tim Horton's here. However I decided to try Biggby's, and why not go large: