Well- the car started up this morning no questions asked. We weaved through the edge of NYC, passing what could have been in van Cartland park (we were hoping to run there en route yesterday) and Washington heights manhattan, (another big time revolutionary war site!). We stopped at the Vince lambardi memory service stop just across the Hudson in New Jersey for some gas. Nothing memorializes someone better than a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike. Thomas Edison was the beneficiary at another one a few miles down the road. He would be so proud.
Full service fuel is still a thing in jersey (it was sometimes in Vermont too). I remember mike Henderson saying it was a law in jersey to require it. Talk about hanging onto jobs of the past. As nice as everyone we've met this trip has been (and it's been amazing), the guy pumping was closer to the stereotype of some guy pumping gas in New Jersey. Interesting to converse with, if a bit gruff.
Kim and Tillman live in an amazing apartment just off downtown. The view from their floor to ceiling windows is phenomenal, overlooking the skyline.
After a run along the schuylkill, we wandered around the city for the afternoon. Got a snack at reading terminal market, checked out the independence hall visitor center, saw the liberty bell, from the outside, mind you because who needs to pay to see it close and wait in line for 30 min to do so.
We ended up back in their neighborhood for dinner at kite and key. It's a pub like atmosphere that we really wanted in our neighborhood, but don't quite have. They also live near the best Whole Foods I've seen, even beating out the amazing one in Boston we went to. Definitely catering to the millennial tastes. There's like 4-5 food kiosks right when you come in that will serve food to order, basically the caf at Gustavus, there's even a pizza place and an area with something like 15 beers on tap. Their cheese selection beats out most cheese stores and the seafood selection was unbelievable.
It's funny though, Kate and I both think their place is amazing, and exploring Philadelphia would be really cool. But at the end of the day, for me at least, I don't think I'd be sustainable in that big of a city. The running is serviceable where they are, but it's going to be the same 2ish routes every day. The parking is 19$ a day outside their apartment, which we are currently paying during our time in New York. There's also not a neighborhood park a few blocks away like we have in Minneapolis, and we have 3 within a 15 min walk.
As slug from atmosphere raps in his Minnesota song: "roam if you must, but come home when you've seen enough".
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