{"id":104,"date":"2009-03-10T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lastgreatroadtrip.net\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-03-15T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:59:25","slug":"tandemonium-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lastgreatroadtrip.net\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Tandemonium in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"

with all due credit to E.B. Browning<\/p>\n

Philly, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways.
\nWe love thee from the Schuykill to the Delaware,
\n <\/span>from N 30th Street to the zoo bridge.
\nWe love thee to the depth and breadth and height
\n <\/span> our tandem bicycles can reach.
\nWe love thee to the level of everyday’s
\n <\/span>most quiet need for cheese steaks and cupcakes.
\nWe love thee freely, purely and deeply
\n <\/span>for thy Quaker ways and thy dedication to old school hip hop.
\nAnd, if the road gods choose, we shall <\/span>love thee
\n <\/span>all the more on our next journey to the Girard Street exit.<\/p>\n

On a less sonnet-y note, Philadelphia was our first road trip stop and was made most excellent thanks to Philly’s coolest of the cool — Jeanette and Jamie. We toured in style with the use of J + J’s Schwinn Twinn tandem. We saw medical oddities at the Mutter, fraternized with the natives (yeah, Baltz Street Radio, that one’s for you) and glutted ourselves on the finest of Chubby’s cheese steak offerings. Not to mention kickball madness with J + J’s posse, hiking in the Wissahickon and (from what Sean and Ian tell me) one of the best disc golf courses on the eastern seaboard. Way to set the bar high, Philly!<\/p>\n