Blogs from South Philly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America

Today we went in the morning the last time to Philly and we used the opportunity to see some things and do some stuff some people we met on way told us to do. We have seen many beautiful paintings on the houses, what Philadelphia is famous for and went to south philly to eat the cheesesteak everybody says we must try. We did a little shopping in the afternoon and prepared dinner for our friends. It was a quite cold day so we are, no matter how nice it is here with our hosts, happy to move on south... trying to escape the winter for a bit longer. ... read more

---THE UNPUBLISHED NOW PUBLISHED SERIES: BLOG ARCHIVES JUNE 2008 --- Since my return to Philly, it seems as if I’ve spent mostly all of my time either talking about my past experiences, or planning for the future. I’ve barely spent one moment in the moment, and it’s begun to make me quite sad. What a contrast to travel life, where it’s all about staying in the moment. Traveling alone and living out of a backpack certainly does make life easier in some respects. Not that it doesn’t come with a hefty set of personal responsibilities, but home has brought upon a tricky juggling act of trying to keep balanced… of situating myself, planning, researching cars, laptops, apartments, future plane flights, and organizing paperwork, taxes, phone bills, rent, groceries, medical insurance, car insurance, freelance jobs, socializing and ... read more

picnics are arranged best when u r least expecting them!!iam sure u will share my opinion here.This weekend when we have planned nothing at all except to take rest,had some really nice time going to Niagara of Pensylvania-The Bushkill Falls. No one anticipated that we r going to have a one day tour to one of the most famous scanic attraction of area,in as less as usd 34.Thsi is nothing especially when i tell u how much i have spent on each of my last weekends..not less than 200 bucks every time.This 34 bucks includes our car rentals,food,gas and park admission cost.Unbelievable,isnt it?It was to me when Profet(real name Prarhit)send us a mail giving details of cost. It was decided suddenly at the party that we had by the poolside in our apts the previous nitei.e ... read more

After my stay in New York, the main part of my travels. I went to stay with Kelsey, a counselor from last year. She is originally from Arizona, went to Uni in LA, and is now on a pre med school program at a college called Bryn Mawr, 30 mins west of Philladelphia city. I was there 10 days. Wed - Friday. Kelsey started classed on the monday, so the first 5 days, i got a tour around and met all her fellow course mates. All of them are post grads and around 22-25 yrs old. It was so much fun. We hit a bar friday night, and Sat night they had a course BBQ before going to a bar! I met up with one of the nurses one day and he showed me round the ... read more