RTPotD: 2 - philadelphia through milton, DE
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philadelphia, PA: PHAAT ("philadelphia historic african-american tours") tour bus, seen on my way to the last drop (aka, the coffeehouse where i relocated 2 acts of my undergrad thesis so as to avoid too much fiction/reality blur. i'd never been there before).
<b>pennsylvania:</b> my friend's neighborhood reminds me a lot of certain neighborhoods in north minneapolis - huge, stately old houses on decent-sized parcels of land abutting streets full of cubic, celadon green glass shards. <i>"guess what!"</i> she exclaims first thing in the morning, <i>"your car didn't get broken into!"</i> get coffee at a shop i've written into a play, but in which i'd never before set foot. drive.
<b>new jersey:</b> there are no signs welcoming me back into new jersey; it just sort of materializes. the highway medians are full of flowers - pink and white, fuchsia and process magenta, the kind my mom taught me as "windflowers" (though i think most people call them "cosmos"). realize that when google maps tells you to take a ferry, it does not account for the time spent on the ferry in its travel-time calculations - so while i'm happy to be on a boat and all, i'm sad i'm going to miss my tour of the dogfish head brewery. hmph.
<b>delaware:</b> "delaware. hi, i'm in...delaware." delaware is full of strange places like "broadkill river," "slaughter beach," "slaughter creek," and "slaughter neck" (slaughter <i>neck</i>? eeeew). have dinner at the dogfish head restaurant in rehoboth beach, where they're utterly perplexed that - no, really - i just need a table for one. the most common roadkill species seems to be ears of corn. find myself alone in a motel room in the middle of nowhere, confronted by 98 channels and - thanks to my entirely cable-free childhood - no idea where to find the porn. fail.