Day 4 of the tour found us in Philadelphia, PA, home of liberty, independence, colonial flags, and sweet sweet colon bombs. We bid a warm fondue to Casa Hankin in the afternoon and rolled into Philly, where, because we're tourists and don't have the sense God gave a danged grasshopper, we proceeded to chow down on delicious, greasy-ass cheesesteaks on Market Street and completely cripple ourselves for the next several hours. (Occasionally I tease Allison about being a vegetarian -- after that, never again.)
The afternoon in Philly was gorgeous -- hot and sunny and amenable to the rabble-rousing that was happening in front of Independence Hall. We took a pleasant walk around Olde City, probably the only neighborhood in America that can legitimately put an e at the end of "Old." Lessons learned: a) unlike New York, which spaces out its squares (Union, Herald, Times, etc.) every twenty blocks or so, Philadelphia decided to put all of its squares in a single, centralized square district; b) if you lose your metronome, consider getting a horse and putting it on a treadmill; c) when you don't know what you're looking at or talking about, every building's stairs look just like the stairs from Rocky.
North Star Bar is a really kick-ass venue. It's huge, it's got a sweet balcony, it's got a cozy green room downstairs (which was blissfully cool, considering we rocked the main room up to about 130 degrees and 400% humidity), and errebody's real friendly. The place was packed, the crowd was fired up, and we melted some faces. East Hundred, our band-friends who hooked us up down Philly-way, played a fearsomely tight set right after us and brought the place down. We were glad to see some familiar faces that night, including Ray's ladyfriend Cameron and her ladyfriends; Amit's buddy Todd from Holy Land days; and my high school friend Adam, who I used to tool around the B-more suburbs with, driving a ridiculous white minivan and generally acting a fool.
We're back in NYC for a couple days and then it's off to the heartland: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and points west, south, and sort of east. (We're just setting the GPS to the intersection of Bread Basket and Rust Belt and seeing where it takes us.)
--Joe
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