Philadelphia City Hall.
Penn's hand, as though he was waving goodbye. (I highly recommend going to the top of City Hall. I think it was 5 bucks, but worth it. You can see the whole city from up there!)
Okay, this next one need explanation. We got a late start and spent the first night in New Stanton, PA. The Days Inn offered breakfast. The photo shows to chaffing dishes of frozen items. The adjacent sign says that "to protect our environment and conserve our natural resources" people have to heat their own breakfast items. The sign also mentions wanting to reduce of food waste. These are reasonable goals, but the ice crystals on the sausage and eggs are more likely to reduce food waste than the sign. Somehow, I think those have been sitting around for a few months with no takers. I guess Days Inn reduced their food expense, too. Isn't there a health problems associated with letting frozen food sit out and then refreezing it?
When we were in St. Louis, we received a quilt that the cat immediately enjoyed.
Next stop, Kansas City. Country Club Plaza will get its own post, but here is a adaptively reused theatre ;)
A wind farm surprised us in the middle of Kansas. I really want to get close to the turbines someday.
In Denver, we visited Rockmount Ranch Wear. A worthwhile stop. Not only did Rockmont innovate with the first snap buttons, but they make cute children versions of they vintage style shirts. I must mention Vesta, an incredible dinner stop. I will write a separate post about it later, but it was hands downt hebest food we had on our trip. (Yes, the whole dipping concept at Vesta sounds gimicky, but the food eas incredible and the service phenomial.)
Next, we hit Arches National Park. The weather was dicey and our time short, but we did see an arch and the famous Three Gossips.
After driving for what felt like several years on the rural one lane roads of Utah, we made it to Salt Lake City. We visited the captiol, which was seemingly unguarded and open to the public on Sunday, and the Morman Temple. Around the capitol, there were a number of beehive motifs. This has to due with a comment Brigham Young made about beehives being self sufficent.
Here is the temple reflected in the fountain in front of it. There were some hilarious foreign tourists there taking photos. Oh dear.
We made a final stop in Utah to enjoy the salt flats. Yes, it tastes salty, but I am not going to tell you how I know that. In the middle of it, the middle of nowhere, there was an odd tree statue.
Nothing exciting happened in NV, but we did make it to Tahoe. Beautiful. The perfect way to enter California.
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