From Tuesday April 11th until Saturday morning April 15th, our excellent friends, (most recently) from Charlotte came to visit and I (we) served as their tour guides to our beautiful, scrappy, historical, quirky City of Philadelphia. Here she is from the 3rd deck at Citizen's Band Park at the Wednesday night Phillies game against the hated Mets.
Pretty, isn't she?
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Now I have lived in Philadelphia (mostly) since 1984. In those 33 years, I have seen and done pretty much every "Philly" thing imaginable. So it was quite interesting and alluring to have the opportunity to do something I had never done before. I have certainly paid attention to and deeply admired the work of Mural Arts Society. It never occurred to me that an excellent way to see many murals in a single neighborhood or two might be best accomplished via Segway.
Exactly up until the moment I stepped onto the control deck, my only thought was "please don't let anyone I know see me on this Nerdcyle". Within seconds, I was converted. It is extremely fun and easy and again, an excellent way to "see" a neighborhood.
Here are some shots by our erstwhile guide Barry of the assembled tooling around Old City and Northern Liberties drinking in the sights and sounds of those two ancient neighborhoods.
