Philadelphia, day 3 and 4
by Niklas Lindskog
Hi!
I'm a day behind, but here are some words and pictures from day 4 in Philadelphia (and just a few words about day 3):.
Travel log bullet points:
* Day 3 was Sunday = shopping day. A bit of an adventure...the first time I have been on a roadtrip in the US with noone to mapread and help me find my way. Luckily the GPS worked fine. Got the rental car at 10 and drove northwest to VF outlet in Souderton, PA. Small town Pennsylvania all the way with traffic lights every 500m or so. Slow driving. $270 and 4 bags of clothes later I got two slices of pizza and drove through beautiful hilly wooded countryside on tiny back roads to Pottstown, PA where I found Philadelphia Premium Outlets. It started snowing right about when I got there. When I was finished it was dark and snowing heavily. And about 10 cm of snow on the roads. Traffic was moving very slowly visibilty and grip at a minimum. The one hour drive took two and a half.
* On day 4 I went out streeting at 10 am after a fire alarm test drove me to check out of the hotel a little earlier than I had planned.
* Walked the midtown streets up and down.
* Got more shots and a great grilled Reuben sandwich for lunch at my favourite place in Philadelphia: Reading Terminal Market.
* Walked northwest to Old town, a historic part of town with lots of US historyPhiladelphia Museum art with the famous "Rock steps". Rocky even got a statue outside the museum!.
* Turned north and saw Eastern State Penitentiary on the recommendation of fellow Progressive Mark Guider. Very interesting!
* Walked back towards the city center and got my bags at the hotel luggae room.
* Walked to 30th St station and got a Cobb salad for dinner and caught the 6.14 to Washington DC arriving at 8.
* It was about 2,5 km to the hostel, so I got a cab.
* Managed to back up and edit some photos until the laptop battery ran out, but then I was more than ready for bed!.
Hugs,
Niklas
