John Collins leads a tour of Detroit’s Exhibit 3000 for visitors from Detroit, New York, Spain and Germany.
              John Collins, CC BY-ND

In 1997, I was one of relatively few tourists in Detroit.

Well before #vanlife was a hashtag, I left my home state of California and drove around the country for five months living in a 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon. Though I had few planned stops, Detroit was on my itinerary because I was a raver and I knew that techno originated in Detroit.

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