You don’t have to travel to Miami to take a cruise. All the way from Orange, Texas by way of Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence is the Detroit Princess. She services as many as 1800 passengers on party cruises and calls the Detroit River home.

Detroit isn’t the only city to host an electronic music festival in late May. In Beijing upwards of 3,000 people danced, having fun & paying homage to Detroit techno music roots.

New rules requiring passports or some other secure means of identification at land-crossings along the Canada-U.S. border come into effect Monday. Implemented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and known as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Canadian and American travelers alike will require a passport or enhanced driver’s license in order to enter.