Friday, July 24, 2009

road trip: take I

We took off on our road trip Wednesday night around 6:00pm. We drove for a good 7 hours and stopped just inside of Indiana a little after 1:00am. We spent a couple hours taking a quick cat nap at a rest stop and were back on the road at 6:00am! Who'd have thought you'd feel so safe amongst a lot full of truckers?

a shot of the backseat just moments into the road trip

We were pleasantly surprised to realize how expensive the toll fees were going to be on this trip. On the Indiana and Illinois interstates, you take a ticket when you enter the toll road and pay when you exit. The longer you're on the toll road, the more money you pay. This day our most expensive toll fee was just under $10.00 and we shelled out around $25.00.

a toll ticket

On day 2 we entered our first destination... Philadelphia! We stopped at the visitor center to pick up a few pamphlets to determine what we'd do with the few hours we'd spend downtown Philly.



posing with an Indian statue at the Philadelphia visitor center

We decided to spend a few hours downtown Philly enjoying the streets. Amy hoped to get a good Philly cheese steak while we were in the city, but unfortunately we didn't find one. Here are a few snapshots while roaming the city:

downtown Philly, park

the LOVE sculpture

tons of carriages lined the streets

Although we weren't there too long, we had fun in Philly wandering the streets aimlessly. We hit rush hour traffic - DOWNTOWN - and spent a good hour getting back on the highway... headed to our nightly destination.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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