Light blogging tonight – its a good night to read. I’ve had Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything checked out for weeks and have had a hard time putting it down. It’s filling in a lot of the blanks that remained in my science education. Bryson’s writing is so entertaining he can make being blown up by a supervolcano sound like fun.
I don’t have a full weekend this weekend as I’m off to Philadelphia for three days beginning tomorrow evening. I’ve flown through Philly many times but never gotten a chance to look around the city itself. Since reading Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin: An American Life I’ve wanted to walk the same streets that Franklin walked. They’re also the same streets that Rocky Balboa walked, or jogged at least. At any rate tomorrow I’ll get my chance.
My son’s at Jefferson Medical in Philadelphia. When I visited him he wanted to go to Mutter Museum. They have a really great exhibit on Franklin and his contribution to medicine (the medical oddity stuff fascinated my son but I preferred the Franklin exhibit). Totally different look at the great man.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/PAPHImut.html
Ron
PS. Run out to Amish country and eat at Good n Plenty if you have the time.
Gotta have a Philly Cheese steak…