I enjoyed my trip to Detroit the first weekend of November for the Chip/Card Collector's Show that was held in Ann Arbor. It was great to see some of the Midwest area collectors I have corresponded and traded with, and the show was a wonderful chance to see stuff and chat in person about collecting.

I stopped at some of the Lake Michigan Indiana boats on the way there and back and hit the three Detroit casinos and Casino Windsor while in the Detroit area. I had not been to Indiana boats for a while and I forgot what a bother it is to get there at the right time to board. (Those boats have a half hour boarding time in each two hour gambling session. This dates back to when they cruised, and even when they didn't cruise state law said if you got off or got there late you had to wait for the start of the next "session." What a hassle!) Went from the show to Detroit and through the tunnel to Canada. With a large cooler (for soda) in the back seat and my briefcase and baseball card boxes of slot card traders in my car, I had the search treatment both ways when going through customs. Canadian and US customs both were most interested in knowing why I had the boxes of cards. (They are ID cards of a sort, and if you try to walk around with a dozen different driver's licenses, you would get really sweated!) I never considered they might treat them as stolen from the casinos, as the other guy posted recently. In both cases I had a nice person looking over my car who accepted my comment that "Everything is collected by SOMEBODY!"

Still too busy to get the software problem on my scanner fixed, so the Indiana/Michigan trade cards I have will be offered later, probably after I get back from next weekend's trip to Vegas.