{"id":688,"date":"2023-05-03T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=688"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:35:19","slug":"crossing-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/05\/03\/crossing-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The theme for today was crossing Philadelphia. While I still expect to be in urban\/suburban areas for a while, I did make it into and out of the center of America’s sixth largest city today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, navigation worked fairly well. Most of the way inbound I used a route (https:\/\/www.adventurecycling.org\/cyclosource-store\/route-maps\/delmarva\/<\/a>) from Adventure Cycling. This seemed to pick a combination of smaller roads. Only one spot did they send me the wrong way on a one-`way street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outbound, I tried someone else’s route from RideWithGPS but ended up with tried and true – Google maps on the phone, writing instructions on a napkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was ~45F and a few drops this morning. Just enough to put on my rain jacket and then sweat into it. The first six miles brought me to center of Wilmington where I picked up the Adventure Cycling route. Little streets, sometimes commercial and sometimes residential. Not all flat though (2000ft climbed today most in the morning). A lot of school buses and many many traffic lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have been seeing signs for “East Coast Greenway” for a while and at some point also saw Philadelphia signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I missed a sign for crossing from Delaware to Pennsylvania – though I could tell by license plates on parked cars. However, I didn’t miss the Philadelphia sign. From here more urban and busy streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My route brought me across the heart of University of Pennsylvania. No riding here, though I was happy for a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now I needed to find the Liberty Bell. It was downtown near Independence Hall. There was a National Park building to hold it and tell more of the story. I couldn’t go easily with my bike so I took the photo at the top of the page outside through the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went 17 miles outbound after the center of the city. A small amount of paths like this but most on streets. Again a lot of row houses, some very commercial strip development and some quieter streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later in the afternoon, traffic seemed to get quite busy. Without much difficulty, found a motel for the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I have stayed in more motels owned by Patels (3) than I’ve seen state capitols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strava<\/a> tells me 52.13 miles today, 5:45:22 elapsed time and average speed of 9.1mph with 2021 feet climbed and 4002 calories burned.<\/p>\n\n\n

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