Philadelphia

We spent yesterday in Philadelphia. Once again, we parked
just out of the city and got the Subway in to the centre.
There wasn't much to do, but the city was nice and we had
Philly cheese steak sandwiches. Yum Yum.

We didn't know if the Liberty Bell was in Philadelphia or Chicago.
We started to doubt ourselves when we couldn't find it on any
maps, and didn't want to ask someone where it was incase
we were in the wrong city!!

Eventually we asked a tramp. That way, how could we be
embarrassed. He pointed us in entirely the wrong direction,
but at least we knew we got the right state!

After walking about 50 zillion miles to find it, we were in for
a disappointment. Liberty Bell; second biggest letdown since
the White House. Not only was the bell smaller than you'd think,
it was in some kind of greenhouse prison. They'd apparently
built a monstrosity of a cage around it after someone tried to
crack it. Isn't it already cracked? I dunno, I couldn't get close
enough to see.

We headed home, feet aching, looking forward to a lovely cup
of tea.

We got back to our RV to find the carbon monoxide alarm going off.
The good side of this is it probably put off any prospective burglers.
The downside was, well, death.

The gas was off, and we really couldn't figure it out. We opened all
our windows and waited for the alarm to stop before hitting the
road again. Better to freeze painfully to death than pass peacefully
away in your sleep, right.

We found a Walmart and made soup and hot chocolate before bed.

We're currently in a Borders bookshop, recharging everything.
We've had our first glimpse of the time for a few days.
Shocking stuff.

We want to head in to New York as soon as possible, but as yet
haven't come up with a plan. Eek.