Detroit Debbie's Savage Journey Tours

01/18/2025

I lived in Seattle from 1996-2004. One of my favorite places was Magnuson park on the northwest shores of Lake Washington. There is a very cool art installation called A Sound Garden (yes Virginia, that is where the band got their name from). When the wind blows, and it does there a lot, it twirls the panels on these pipes, which look like huge flutes. The sound they make is both eerie and beautiful & never the same "song" because the speed of the wind creates a pitch and tempo.
On very windy days, this place is packed with people...I always brought visitors here and everyone loved it. In 1997 when the band broke up, me and my friend Roxanne came here to be sad and comforted.....many Soundgarden fans were also there.

01/17/2025

We here at Detroit Debbie's Savage Journey Tours are honored to be nominated for a 2025 Cowboy Award in the category of rock writer. It was a pleasure and a blast to drive the tour bus up from Boston to Portland Maine with Mach Bell of the band MBE....and live to write about it! THE SAVAGE JOURNEY CONTINUES!

09/10/2024

"Just move on up, toward your destination" Not meant for the great Curtis Mayfield, but cool nonetheless. In Livonia Michigan, Curtis Street runs east/west halfway between 6 & 7 mile . Mayfield street runs north/South just east of Farmington road. This is near my house....rock and roll is everywhere!
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03/29/2024

1994 Glenwood Springs Colorado with the nanny family, heading to a dude ranch in the mountains. Stopped by here to see Doc Holiday grave site and do a grave stone rubbing. Had to hop the fence, but said a prayer he didn't mind. This was after seeing the movie Tombstone a few times, loving that flick and that character played by Val Kilmer.

03/24/2024

Stopped by to pay respects to Rob Tyner singer of MC5 buried near where I am house sitting. Footsteps in the snow leading to the grave, so he is still getting visitors. Flowers and a harmonica left for him ❤️

01/08/2024

In March 1998 I took a trip to London England for a few days and then to Ireland for 10 days. While I was in London I went to Greenwich to stand on the Prime Meridian Line. I was able to have one foot in the eastern half of the world and one foot in the western half of the world simultaneously. Since the late 19th century, the Prime Meridian at Greenwich has divided the eastern and western hemispheres of the Earth - just as the equator divides the northern and southern hemispheres.

In 1884 the Prime Meridian was defined using the Transit Circle telescope at the Royal Observatory. The cross-hairs in the eyepiece of the telescope precisely marked Longitude 0° for the world.

I got a certificate for doing this, and only snapped a few photos, as this was the days of film in a camera and I only had so many rolls on me.....some pics I took came out blurry, so I didn't post them. This was a thrill for me as I am a map-aholic and was very interested in dividing lines for time zones.

01/06/2024

May 2023 The famed Electric Lady recording studio in the Greenwich Village area of NYC. It was commissioned by rock musician Jimi Hendrix in 1968 and designed by architect John Storyk and audio engineer Eddie Kramer by 1970. Hendrix spent only ten weeks recording in Electric Lady before his death that year, but it quickly became a famed studio used by many top-selling recording artists from the 1970s onwards, including Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and David Bowie. Located at 52 W 8th St. New York, NY 10011 They do not allow you to tour the inside as musicians are working, but just seeing the place was a thrill for me. I was wearing my Led Zeppelin shirt that day and a guy who came out the studio and passed by me while I was marveling at the door, imitated the opening guitar part of Kashmir from the Physical Graffiti album by Zep. I said "Led Zep hell yeah"! THAT in itself was so awesome, as it is my fav Zep song, and I had just been at the building in the east village that was used for the cover of the album!!!

01/06/2024

Saint Patrick cemetery. 10 miles off the I-90 just east of Cleveland Ohio. R.I.P. Ben Orr singer of the Cars. November 2021

01/06/2024

Liverpool September 2019: An absolute highlight of my day today when our Magical Mystery Tour Bus stopped at Strawberry Fields, Julia Baird who is John Lennon's half sister came down to say hello. She was in the new school built there and some Lennon family members were there for a lunch prior to the grand opening next week. I shook her hand and said hello and she asked where I was from. When I said Detroit Michigan she was so impressed and said it was lovely to meet me. I nearly broke down and cried. That gate was padlocked and she tried getting out, said she felt like she was in jail and she was laughing. Our tour guide said we were so lucky, although he has met her many times.

01/06/2024

September 2019, Tour of Paul McCartney's house, also with the National Trust who restored the inside, although a lot was never changed after Paul's family moved out. The guides had fantastic stories to tell from the family themselves and it was just unbelievable to be in that space. Once again all our items confiscated during the tour but we got a book with photos of the interiors.

01/06/2024

National Trust tour inside John Lennon's house. September 2019. SO WORTH IT to be in the spaces he lived, hear the stories of his upbringing, sit in the room he wrote songs in. Kudos to Yoko Ono for buying the home and the Trust for the restoring of it back to the 50's era. They lock up your belongings so no photos are taken, but you get a nice book of photos

01/06/2024

November 23, 2017 Wi******er Virginia: Rock Traveler Roszkowski reminiscing; I visited the home that Patsy Cline grew up in, the small museum in the welcome center and her grave site. Took this Thanksgiving weekend road trip to hit 3 states I had not been to yet... Virginia, Maryland & West Virginia. House address is: 608 S Kent St, Wi******er, VA 22601 Visitor center is located at: 1400 S. Pleasant Valley Road Wi******er, VA 22601 Cemetery located at: 1270 Front Royal Pike, Wi******er, VA 22602

03/29/2023

April 2022 - Lahaina Maui. Mick Fleetwood lives here and owns this restaurant and when he is in town they fly a red flag on the rooftop. They sit across the street from the ocean & every night they have a sunset ceremony with bagpipers parading thru the 3 floors of the place. They also have nightly concerts up there on the roof and Mick often sits in with the band. I had this delicious Mai Tyler drink and a salad, and yes they have Fleetwood Mac & cheese on the menu

03/29/2023

February 2023 The Spirit Of Detroit Statue in Downtown Detroit with Linda (Baltimore) and Dina & Cheryl from Boston

03/29/2023

February 2023 Hitsville USA Motown Records with Patty, Dina, Linda & Cheryl. It was closed for remodeling this day, but is now reopened to tour the facility

03/29/2023

February 2023 Woodlawn Cemetery Detroit with Linda (Baltimore) Dina & Cheryl (Boston) Rosa Parks is buried here

03/29/2023

THE ICONIC Cobo Arena. Bob Seger Live Bullet, J.Geils Blow Your Face Out & Kiss Alive recorded here LIVE. Aerosmith has cited this as their favorite venue and audience outside of Boston. With Linda from Baltimore & Dina & Cheryl from Boston. February 2023

03/29/2023