Touring a City in One Day: Philadelphia

It is quit interesting that I haven't yet alluded to the amount of times I have been to Philadelphia. By this time sophomore year of high school I had already been about 14 times, and that was just to the museum/historical areas.  I wasn't all to excited for this field trip because I had already seen everything we were going to see many times over. We also went with the freshman class which we didn't entirely like and thought they would ruin the whole trip.

This trip I then decided to make it more interesting and recall all the facts in which I had learned over the years and pretended to be a tour guid for a group of my friends.  They thoroughly enjoyed the show I put on.  We laughed when a family joined the group because they thought it was their tour, I think they were very embarrassed.  

It was a day well spent and we saw all the classic stops and got our pick of some good cheese steaks.  The class below us wasn't to much of a problem and most of them were civil the whole trip.  I enjoyed the difference of going with my friends and not different people in my family.  Against my teachers wishes it became more of a social field trip instead of an educational one, but it was still a day off from school.

Life Lesson #17: Never pretend to be a tour guide otherwise you will get people listening in on your explanation for free.

Touring a City in One Day: Boston

Before I get into today's post about my day trip to a historical city.  I would like to inform you guys of one of my friend's Courtney Davis and her awesome blog entitled Places To Escape To it's another blog about interesting locations.

It's a great day when you wake up at 6:00 am to reach your church by 6:30 to leave for a day of touring a city.  I takes about four hours to get from where I live to Boston, Massachusetts.  With the GPS malfunctioning and taking us down roads that didn't exist added about and hour more.  Spending extra time on a school bus than originally planned can be painful when it is with about 40 middle schoolers.

The streets of Boston are narrow and filled with so much history.  We visited many graveyards looking at the grave stones of historical figures.  Along with several ancient churches leading back to the beginning of the country. We also got on this boat type thing (pictured to the left) to tour the city even faster.

While in one of the cemeteries we did a scavenger hunt using names, date of birth, or death to find the rest of the information of the dead. While is was a fun activity it was very informing about the age of some of those men.


In the end it was a very long day. We stayed in the city of Boston till around 8:15 when it started to get dark.  The long drive back started with most of us sleeping after the long day of walking we had. Touring a city in one day is fun but also makes you very tired.  I plan to go back again and take more time than just a day.

Life Lesson #10: When walking around a city for a day be prepared with proper walking shoes, water, and a working camera.