7/23/2010

Many adventures since my last post.
Let's see where did I leave off?
Oh, yes.

We rode to the outter suburbs of Philadelphia. We've stayed at many different hotel chains on this trip and in the post but none as bad as the one the last two nights.
Motel 6 in the town of King of Prussia. DO NOT STAY THERE -- DO NOT RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE! It's a dump and they will be getting a letter from me when I get home.

Now, I have to say we where able to take the city bus SEPTA all the way to downtown/historic Philly for $7/person round trip. Totally worth it. We didn't have to drive in the city and from what I saw of the traffic this was a good thing.

We did ALOT in the historic district. Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Christ Church, Ben Franklin's burial site, Carpenter's Hall, a house where Thomas Jefferson stayed to write the Decloration of Independence. The only thing we missed was Betty Ross' house.
It's pretty strange to think these large and beautiful buildings where there and that the city of Philadelphia has skyscrappers surrounding them.

So, what's the hype about Philly Cheesestakes? I don't get it. We went to Jim's on 4th and South. There was a line outside, the wait about 1/2 hr. It was ok, I personally think a good Chicago Beef sandwich is better though. But that's what you do when you're on vacation, try new things, right?

Today, we went over to Valley Forge national park. Very pretty country. Nothing remains of the orginal encampment as the property that it took place on was owned by local farmers at the time and everything was dismantled. EXCEPT for the house that George Washington rented out for his command post. We got to go through it. We also go to see nps staff doing and excavation of a sight not far from the house where a cabin use to be. We took a trolley tour of the park. Let someone else drive us around this time. Just like Gettysburg there are alot of monuments through out the park. At one of the stops there where re-enactors there to explain what was going on during the 6 months the army was there. They also explained their uniforms and guns.

Just how hot is too hot to ride? Today was the day. I couldn't stand it anymore and told Steve we had to stop. So we went to the town of Phoenixville. We found a real interesting restaurant to stop at. I thought it was mexican when we first went by but when we went in it turns out it was Guatemalan. Oh was it good too. I had steak and Steve has chicken. They where so friendly too. Family run and only open for 1 month. She was surprised how far we were too.

Tonight we are in Chambersbug, PA. not far from Haggerstown, MD then off to VA.