It was a 4-mug trip. Mugs lying on Frank Lloyd Wright scarf.
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Author: Kathy
Well, Team Liberty Bell 13-strong made it! All the way from Central Park in NYC to the Liberty Bell in PHL. Nine days, 120+ miles. (Jury is still out on how many miles we actually walked. Stay tuned as Al and Annie check what their machines recorded as our actual mileage.)
Today Competent Captains du Jour Barb, Barbara, Kathleen (with help from Judy who was on her childhood turf) walked us from Holiday Inn Express to Market East Station for train ride to East Falls to begin, on this Loveliest of Spring Days, our walk to Liberty Bell destination. We walked along the Schuylkill River, past The Pilgrim, Boathouse Row, Oarsman John B. Kelly, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Free Library, LOVE sculpture, Ben Franklin.
We arrived at the Liberty Bell 3:35 pm, APR 12, 2014. Group picture of us by Cousin Steve outside Independence Hall, then on for The Grand Finale Lunch at City Tavern where greatness had wined and dined before us: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, etc. The latter dubbed City Tavern “The most genteel tavern in America”. We found it “genteel” enough but mainly it was just fun. See pics re history, menus, etc.
Great Big Thank You to Keith for making our journey comfortable and safe. He rented a van to scout our route, to transport our luggage to the next hotel, to be available for rescue if we needed him. (Fortunately a service we seldom needed.) He oversaw the lunch arrangements at City Tavern and even designed the Aries birthday cake. On one of his periodic checks on us on our route, when I ended the phone call with “I love you,” Team Liberty Bell yelled into the phone, “We all love you.”
We do! Thank you, Luv, for supporting and encouraging my antics all these years.
And, of course, how ever do Marjorie and I thank you all for walking with us to make our 75th so memorable?
When and if we ever “catch our breaths”, let’s add some more things (pics, funnies, observations, memories) to the blog. Send it all to Al to post or, I suppose in a pinch!, we ourselves could learn to post.
Stay tuned.
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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Happy Birthday, Marjorie – Now we’re the same age.
Grand walk today with Barb, Barbara, Kathleen as Captains du Jour. Super sleuth Barb guided us to Elkins Park to see the only synagogue (called Beth Sholom) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. What a treat. To me, with its tipi/pyramid shape, it didn’t look anything like a FLW design from the outside, but once inside, FLW was written all over: the open airiness, the light filtering through, geometric designs in glass in the chandelier, etc. If you want to learn more, it’s worth a trip to the website at bethsholompreservation.org
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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April 10 – Yardley to Trevose
Captains du Jour Annie and Judy led us to good stuff today including Bucks County Public Library in Yardley where we were warmly greeted. So intrigued they were with our Long Walk that they want to put us on their website. Fun.
At the library Artist Cheryl discovered an Art o Mat. A what? See pictures and explanations. What it is is a cigarette machine repurposed to dispense objects of art. Cheryl and I each bought $5 tokens to get a “cigarette” package of earrings made from postage stamps (random). Cheryl liked her earrings made from stamps from Denmark and I was particularly happy with my earrings made from Bermuda stamps because of the memories of the fun trip there that I took my Mother on as a Mother’s Day gift.
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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April 9 – Onward to Pennsylvania
Led by Captains du Jour Judy and Annie, we left our Clarion Hotel Palmer Inn in Princeton to walk to Yardley, PA today. Crossed the Delaware (again) this time on Calhoun Bridge from Trenton to Morrison, PA. Lunch at Cafe Antonio. Most of day along D & R Canal and Delaware Canal. Train from Yardley to Philadelphia. Arrived Market East Station in PHL from where we walked to our new Hotel Holiday Inn Express. Some have views of the blue Ben Franklin Bridge.
Just after we crossed on the bridge to Pennsylvania, we enjoyed a grand lunch at Cafe Antonio, where Judy toasted: Welcome to my State. My Fettuccini Alfredo was enough for lunch for me and dinner for Keith and me. Keith heated the leftovers with the hair dryer. What a guy!
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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Hotel van took us the 13 miles to Washington Crossing State Park (in NJ) from where we walked via bridge to Washington Crossing Historic Park (in PA). We learned that for 61 years, except for two when bad weather made it unsafe, 100’s (all in uniform) have participated in a reenactment of the Christmas Day 1776 crossing. They reenact at 1:00 pm in order to spend rest of Christmas Day with families and friends.
So, how was YOUR Christmas, George?
At Princeton University some enjoyed Edvard Munch exhibit, docented by artist Cheryl. Others found the Princeton Public Library and thrift shops. Most of us took a tour of the campus. Super-enthusiastic sophomore Niclole told us Princeton has 5500 under graduate students and 2500 grad students and 70 miles of shelves of books. She illustrated the distance by saying, “So if two people started walking at the same time, one heading for New York City and the other walking the route of the shelves, the person walking to New York would finish first.”
Our group giggled at the idea WALKING to New York!
Enjoy the pics.
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Enjoy the pics of yet another grand day led by Captains du Jour Diane, Louise, Cheryl.
BestFeedForward, aka Kathy
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April 6 – Heading to the trail
OK, Joyce, you ask what’s the funniest that happens each day. Here goes.
In Bound Brook where we were taking a break, a woman wondered what our group was all about. When we told her that to celebrate two 75th birthdays we were walking from New York to Philadelphia, she asked, Oh, what’s going on there?
Methinks she’d not heard that quotation about the journey being more important than the destination!
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BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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April 5 – Walking in the sun again
Today we took train from Newark Penn Station to Cranford to resume where we left off last night. A five-library day today: Cranford, Garwood, Scotch Plains, Plainfield, Dunellen.
Walk led by entertaining Co-captains du Jour Harry and Marjorie.
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
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April 4 – A little rain must fall
Today we walked from Hampton Inn, in Harrison, NJ (Harrison named after our 9th President) to Clarendon, NJ. A three-library day: Newark, Hillside, Union + little neighborhood “freelance” library. Lunch at Mark Twain Diner in Union. Bought Blood of an Aries by Linda Mather for 25 cents at Union Public Library. Appropriate for this group which includes 5 Aries.
Enjoy the pics.
BestFeetForward, aka Kathy
