Philadelphia

Day 26
Destination: Philidelphia, PA
Route: Highway 13, 495, 95
Miles Ridden: 295    Total Miles: 6,129

Points of Interest:

• Constitutional Hall

Our anticipated trip was to take us to Washington DC. We decided to get to Boston one day early, and had to adjust our trip. Since we had been in DC several times before, we decided to visit Philidelphia. The most important place to visit is Constitutional Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were argued and signed. It is the birthplace of the United States, and a place every citizen should visit. Even though President Obama finds no need for the Constitution, most people disagree and believe that the Constitution should be protected at all cost. Looking at the room where these great men met and created such a document, one could only imagine the risk they took in signing the Declaration of Independence. The signors must have been considered rather extreme in their day, since modern historians believe that only 1/3 of the colonists actually supported independence. If they followed polls, like the current administration likes to do, the colonists would have been peacefully sipping the tea which was dumped into the harbor in Boston. How different our world would have been.