Day 4 (38): Philadelphia, PA & Riverdale, NJ

Getting moving this morning was a little tougher. There really isn’t a lot to report road-wise since most of our driving has been on the interstate. Eventually we started chugging right along made it to Philadelphia. Our first stop was at a historical marker for Tun Tavern:

Mini-B wishes he could be a Marine Dog...they weren't recruiting when he was eligible.

Tun Tavern was the location of the birthplace of the Marine Corps. The interstate runs over the actual site so they have this marker nearby. We were just a few blocks from the Liberty Bell and all that stuff so we walked in to see that too.

It was super crowded and we weren't able to get a good one of the both of us.

We walked over to Independence Hall and took a few pictures there:

Our meter was running out and we wanted to get on the road so we didn’t ‘explore’ that area any more than that. We were very pleased with what we saw as it was.

We were on our way to visit Devin’s sister, Julianne and her boyfriend Emil in New Jersey. We had planned to go to Albany, NY after that to visit another friend. We hadn’t called him yet to tell him the exact day we’d be coming through, he just knew we were taking this trip sometime and he was one of our stops. On our way to New Jersey he called … to tell us he was on his way to southern Illinois! Funny how things happen like that.

Once off the interstate we drove through lots of beautiful little towns, including Princeton. We hit spotty rain here and there. It would have been awesome to take the bike but after all the craziness of the wedding and the unpredictable weather we see that it was the smart thing to do.

Finally we made it Julianne & Emil’s. After freshening up they took us out to dinner at an AMAZING restaurant. We enjoyed appetizers (octopus bruchetta, rice balls, fried peppers) and killer dinner. I got the farfalle pasta with shrimp, Devin had pork osso bucco that he is still talking about, Julianne got a perfect roast chicken while Emil had pork tenderloin. We stayed up and out late enjoying each others company. As with friends, family also knows no distance or time. We only get to see Julianne a few times a year which made it easy to change our plans a little and decide to stay a second night with them.

Guess what...we forgot to do the mileage again, but according to Google maps we traveled about 300 miles today for a total of 300 plus a lot of other miles across America.