On the Streets of Philadelphia – Part Two
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Bob and I thought we had blown it after visiting the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. We had been in Philly for about three hours and had seen a boatload of sites…but wait, there was more. Unfortunately though, when we walked the short jaunt over to Independence Hall at around 3:00pm, we learned that they were all booked up for the day’s tours. This was quite the bummer. This had been the location where the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were both drafted and signed. Read the rest of this entry »
The previous day had been an exhausting one at 
Bob and I had made our way from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, which was about 90 minutes away. We arrived at about 11:40am on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, 2009. We parked the car at the Independence Visitors Center parking garage and set out on a very long and tiring day’s adventures on foot. In fact, we saw so much in Philadelphia, which in essence was where the United States was born, that I am breaking this location into two separate postings. The sites represented in this first volume represent about three hours worth of activity – or roughly half the time it will take to actually complete this posting. I had not visited Philadelphia since 
Atlantic City, New Jersey, was the only major city that my friend Bob had yet to visit on his long road of traveling America over the years. So this was a must-do city from his perspective. I had absolutely no qualms about seeing this great town either. I’m not much of a gambler, but there was plenty to see and do and eat for the evening we spent here on Monday, June 15, 2009.