In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
> Philadelphia, PA
> June 18, 2008
>
> S&A Press -- Stan and I joined up again today for lunch at the Reading
> Terminal Market. We met up timewise around 1:00PM only a minute apart so
> our timing was great.
>
> We didn't dilly-dally all over the market like last time and I quickly got
> a chicken/salsa wrap and a bottle of water and Stan grabbed a homestyle
> plate of turkey with all the fixings, and a diet ginger ale as an
> afterthought.
>
> Neither of us did any food shopping there today.
>
> We stepped outside and sat at a sidewalk table as the world passed by, Stan
> pointing out some building highlights. It was very nice weather but the
> weather talking heads said chance of showers so we both brought umbrellas.
>
> We whipped out our pocket cameras and then, we walked! First to City Hall
> to visit Mr. Penn and look in and around it. The inside was being used for
> a film shoot, so we weren't allowed full access. "Transformers II" we were
> told. So be sure to see it after "Stan & Andy's Excellent Adventure" comes
> out in theaters real soon!
>
> Around City Hall (which sits on a city block island with a roundabout of
> traffic all around it. Along 1/8 circle was a (Stan, correct me if I'm
> wrong) Community Farmer's Market. Small but still a great effort of a
> community.
>
> Then we crossed the street to Market street when Stan got hit by 4 or 5
> raindrops and I got hit by 1 or 2. Didn't even have time to quick draw our
> umbrellas.
>
> Stan being a Philly native was a great tour guide pointing out buildings
> and answering all my questions with suave and ease. And we walked and
> talked about anything and everything.
>
> I smartly took an indocin at lunch to keep my lame feet from bothering me
> and luck would have it, from 12th street to 30th street and a lap around
> City Hall we walked 22 blocks (more than half the length of center city
> "proper" from east to west. I kept up to Stan the whole time, with only a
> few lag behinds.
>
> When we got to 30th Street Station we sat down and I checked my train
> schedule and had a train 10 minutes away at 2:54PM, I couldn't believe it
> had only been two hours. I think my bad feet told me I was tired. I
> could've lasted longer if I could've napped on a bench at the train station
> just a few minutes! 
>
> Stan also got his driver's license renewed this morning and he looks better
> on the new license (or less guilty anyway). 
>
> We agreed to do it again some sunny day!
>
> To be continued.
>
> Andy
> of "Stan & Andy's Excellent Adventure"
> In theaters real soon.
Andy, your rendition of your adventure sounds perfectly accurate. I
ended up arriving in the city (via train) two hours prior to our 1:00pm
meeting at the Reading Terminal Farmers Market. I walked from 8th &
Market Streets to 23rd & Walnut Streets with my laptop in my backpack. I
dropped my laptop off at Springboard Media and the gentleman at the
service counter was nice enough to swap out the 80GB hard drive with a
new 250GB hard drive ... after I paid them a few hundred dollars! I am
copying my backup disk to the new internal disk now as I write this
message.
After you board the train to go home, I walked back to Spring Board
Media to see what was happening with my laptop. That was around 4:00. So
I decided I was hungry again and I walked over to 16th & South Streets
and I went to Don's Ribs and I ordered a barbecue chicken platter for an
early dinner. Just as I finished eating dinner, I got a call on my cell
phone that my laptop was ready to be picked up, so I strolled back to
the computer store, paid, and they gave me my computer back, then I
walked through Rittenhouse Square back to the PATCO train station on
Locust Street to go home.
All told, my iPod+Nike pedometer says I walked a bit more than 8 miles!
My feet are killing me! I plan to go to Washington DC tomorrow to shoot
photos if the weather cooperates. I really want to eat dinner too at the
Ketchup restaurant in the National Harbor area.