For various Reasons, we did not go to Traverse City today.

For various Reasons, we did not go to Traverse City today. Eventually, I determined to go to Eastern Market on a hunting expedition (successful, fwiw).  I knew enough to check construction and closures before I went, but it turns out nothing, not the DOT, not Google, not nothing was fully informative. Thus the discovery that the following were under construction or closed, in large part or in whole:

1. I-75
2. I-96
3. I-94
4. M-14
5. M-10
6. Woodward
7. Some other fairly major through street Downtown-ish

Oh, and there was a baseball game.

How, exactly, do they manage to run this region, again?

What I went hunting for was the longish variety of eggplant plants, rather than the more common globe-like ones. After exhaustively searching every single vendor that had plants, I succeeded. Which only tells you I should have started at that end of the Market in the first place. So that was successful and I had a lovely time playing Hopscotch Detroit (not). Also, I now have time to plan alternate routes to DDFC, which is not nothing, although I'm not sure there's really much advantage since everyone else is probably trying alternate routes.