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Excellent day yesterday meeting up with @TimKStanton@mstdn.social for a walking tour thru historical Plymouth, plus a couple tasty pours at Vitamin Sea Brewing. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Jen has flown home, and I’m starting the last leg of my road trip. Here’s what my progress has looked like thus far (green counties).

I’m quite behind on posts, but will try to catch up over the next day or two. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Some recent highly-rated brewery stops:

  • Tired Hands Brewing (near Philly)
  • Sworn Brewing (near Harrisburg PA)
  • Ever Grain Brewing (also near Harrisburg)
  • Other Half (Philly)
  • Source Urban Brewing (Philly)
  • Maine Beer Co (Freeport ME)

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📍 Fishtown, Philadelphia - iykyk… 🏷️ 25.05C

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The Tunkhannock Viaduct, built in 1915, remains the largest concrete reinforced bridge in the world. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Wawa remains firmly in second place in our rankings of best road trip convenience stores.

  1. Buc-ee’s
  2. Wawa
  3. Sheetz
  4. QT
  5. Love’s

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A Wawa store sign is mounted on a brick and beige exterior wall with a partly cloudy sky above.
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We also stopped by an overlook for Three Mile Island yesterday. 🏷️ 25.05C

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We also visited Clifford Brown Park, an interesting “listening garden” dedicated to the jazz legend. What a fun concept! (see rsjon.es for a video/audio clip). 🏷️ 25.05C

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This morning we dipped down into Delaware to visit three of the schools at the heart of cases that were consolidated into what became the Brown v Board of Education desegregation case (yep it included far more than just Monroe Elemetary in Topeka). 🏷️ 25.05C

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My progress on the first leg of the trip, which started in Columbus and ends here in Philly (Jen flies in tonight for leg 2).

Blue counties are ones I’ve already visited. Dark green are the new ones I marked off on this trip, while light green ones are revisits.

I’m now over 2000 total counties!

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Worlds End State Park 🏷️ 25.05C

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I’ve driven some great 1+ lane forest roads here in Pennsylvania. Just look at this arching canopy!

A dirt road winds through a lush, green forest with overhanging trees arching towards each other.
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Perhaps the oddest town name sign I’ve ever come across… What exactly is the message here? 🏷️ 25.05C

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A few iphone shots of Adams Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park, best known for its gorge-ous waterfalls—more than 20 of which can be seen on a single loop trail. I could only poke in for a bit given time constraints and the crappy weather, but this was well worth the journey to get there. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Welp, it appears that three unending days of rain is upon me, which will curtail most of the outdoor stuff I had planned today. Oh well, still a few good views to be had, even when it’s unnecessarily wet.

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A scenic view of a lush, green forested valley with mist and clouds drifting among the hills and a river winding through.
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Whoopsie

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Pennsylvania ain’t too shabby… 🏷️ 25.05C

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While you hear a lot more about its sequel, this here was the OG. 25.05C

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Got #LostNeededDirections along the way. Had originally planned to stop at the venerable Straub, one of the oldest family-run breweries in the country, but it inexplicably closes at 2pm today. Sadly, that’s been par for the course on this road trip. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Spent the morning wandering thru Forest Cathedral, one of the earliest and most influential campaigns to protect old growth forests on private lands, which resulted in the creation of Cook Forest State Park (PA). A lovely walk, should have taken some more photos! 🏷️ 25.05C