The Terrible Catsafterme

I’m one of those freaky people who is a sucker for a rainy day. I actually enjoy them. I love the coziness of being in the house or car with the pitter patter of the raindrops hitting the roof. So I quite enjoyed Thursday, June 17, 2009, as Bob and I made our way into the northern portion of New Jersey via motorcar in the driving rain. Even though we had to frequently hop out of the car in the downpour, we both had our umbrellas so we didn’t do much complaining. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob and I had visited Atlantic City, New Jersey on Monday, but we didn’t really get to see a lot of New Jersey until Wednesday and Thursday that week. The morning of Wednesday, June 17, 2009, we had seen the remainder of the sites we need to see in Philadelphia, had lunch in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and then made the short trek to our first destination in Jersey, the capitol building in Trenton. Just as we were arriving at around noon, I got some irritating news from home from Heidi who was feeding my cats. Ashleigh had had friends over after the debacle of my previous trip. This put a bit of a damper on the rest of the day for me. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 1986, at which time I had only seen a few of the locations that I would see this day.   Read the rest of this entry »