Onwards to Philly

Well our time in DC has come to an end, we now head by train to Philadelphia for a 4 night stay with our basketball game tonight.

Our time in DC has been great (we won’t talk about the no power for 3 days), we have seen and experienced things we never thought we would get to in our lifetime.

The highlight for me was the Arlington Cemetery, a place I have wanted to visit for many years now! Dave’s highlight was the sheer size of all the buildings and monuments.

The only underwhelming thing was The White House.

Like San Fran and Chicago, we felt very safe in DC and we found our way around extremely easily, never getting lost (just like in San Fran and Chicago) and all cities have been easily accessible by foot.

The train station in Washington was easy to find your way around with a big waiting area for Amtrak customers. Before long we were boarded the Acela train destination Philadelphia.

The trip was only an hour and a half and it went smoothly. We arrived at William Gray station in Philly, made a quick exit, found our Uber and we were at our hotel in about 10 minutes.

We really didn’t have much time to settle in before it was time to get another Uber to the basketball at Wells Fargo Center.

Our Uber driver was half an hour early so we arrived way before we needed to and had to wait in the cold before the gates opened.

Dave had a Philly cheesesteak and I had chips for dinner, both weren’t very appetising at all. All Dave has been wanting is a Philly cheesesteak so hopefully the ones in the city are better.

We saw Philly 76ers v Chicago Bulls and our seats were right on the floor. Even though both teams aren’t top teams at the moment, I have always, since Michael Jordan days, wanted to see Chicago Bulls play and tonight I got to.

Whilst, because the teams weren’t top teams, the game and atmosphere weren’t as amazing as our last game we saw in San Fran in 2023, we still both had an amazing night with the Bulls winning 142 to 110.Read more