Greece update: Final day on Mykonos. Maybe some windmill sightings. Or am I still at Super Paradise beach??
Just a few hours after returning from New York City I was on my way to Philadelphia. For a friend’s birthday, Ricky and I got tickets to see Britney Spears. More on that later in the week. Today I’ll cover some thoughts on the city of Philadelphia in general.
It’s been a couple months since my last trip to Philadelphia. Not much has changed that I could see. One recurring feature wherever I go in the city is that it’s pretty clean! Solar powered trash compactors are commonplace here and are directly next to dedicated recycling containers. The compactors claim to save space in landfills and fuel transporting waste. The space issue I can agree with, but I’m not sure about any fuel savings. Trash is going to weigh the same no matter how compacted it is. In fact you could fit more trash and more weight into the same collection truck. Maybe that enables them to take fewer trips?
We were making our way to the Mütter Museum and ended up driving around the Amtrak station building twice to get onto the right street. Like any city, Philaedlphia has it’s fair share of one-way streets. We ended up finding a parking lot next to an erotic book store. Perfect! Another interesting tidbit is that Philadelphia seems to have a great deal of valet parking garages where you drop off your car at the front of the garage and an attendant goes to park it. We saw the valet literally take the car and drive it about 20 feet into an open space. Kind of crazy.
Finally parked and able to stretch our legs, we made our way out into the city.