The Saturday Morning Post - 50 states in 52 weeks - Pennsylvania

 

The Pennsylvania State Capital

City Hall in Philadelphia 

Pennsylvania is about halfway between Washington DC and New York City. From east to west Pennsylvania is nearly 300 miles wide, when you are driving across the state, it seems like it goes on forever. Philadelphia is the major city in the east, just across the river from New Jersey. Pittsburgh is near the western end of the state and far north. I have driven around Pittsburgh many times, and never been into the city. I should stop one trip.   

Philadelphia, or Philly as it is known, was where the colonial congress met, where the treasonist Declaration of Independence was written and signed 250 years ago next summer. The founding fathers were a nonconformist lot, a tradition that was carried on by the much missed, dearly departed blogger Ann Marie. We met her and Todd for lunch a couple of years before their untimely deaths. 

There is a lot of Pennsylvania in between, miles and miles and miles of rolling farmland and forests. Kind of smack dab in the middle, is Harrisburg, the state capital, and home to Mistress Maddie a brilliant and somewhat uninhibited young blogger (at my age most of you are young.) 

It is a pretty state, and one that really deserves more attention than I have given it. One big suggestion, get off of the turnpike and expressways, and mosey your way around the back roads of Pennsylvania.  I have done that a couple of times, and it is a really fun place to explore.