East Coast Extravaganza: Quickie to Philly

I had never been to Philly before this past year of traveling, and I never really even consciously thought about it as an actual place to visualize in my mind. Being in New Jersey I took a little side trip to the cheesesteak home for a school meeting and also for a Michael Buble concert.  Driving to Philly from Jersey is an easy drive if you have at least $20 bucks in cash to ride the Jersey turnpike. Unfortunately being a west coast girl where it is free to drive on the freeways, I was a virgin to this toll road concept.  Just for your information, if ever you happen to run out of cash on the toll road they will not take credit or debit cards, nor will they accept any other forms of bribes to get you past. Instead they might just make you pull over on the side of the road to wait for a police escort to the nearest ATM.

I have some mundane photos of Philly. I'm sure any other Asian with a camera could do better.  Man I need to work on my photography skills. Anyways, here's what I have:

Liberty Bell

Independence Hall

Here's my pictures from the concert.  I really think he's just so talented. The Frank Sinatra of my generation.  And handsome and cute.  I'm such a hopeless romantic softie at heart.

By the way, in case you were wondering I reminded myself to take a trip to the ATM before attempting to drive back.  Why do they call it a turnpike anyways? What the hell is a turnpike?