Category Archives: Pennsylvania

Ever since seeing it in Childcraft probably around the age of five or six, I’ve been enchanted with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, an iconic house built in 1936-1937 for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar Kaufman. When I learned that I’d … Continue reading →

Wednesday after the Four Locks area of the C&O Canals and the Paw Paw Tunnel, we went to the Allegheny Passage Big Savage Tunnel, a 3000′ former railroad tunnel that is lighted. We had considered visiting it on our outbound … Continue reading →

Tuesday afternoon we attended the show at the Gettysburg visitor center and then drove the self-guided auto tour. We climbed each of the three observation towers and the view was amazing.

Monday we got public-transportation day passes that included the regional rail from where we were staying into Philadelphia and subway/train, trolley, and bus in town. We transferred from regional rail to subway at City Hall station and headed toward Independence … Continue reading →

Last Sunday we drove and walked through Valley Forge, which I had visited two autumns ago with my cousins. For the record, this is Washington’s headquarters: And something in the detached kitchen looks very familiar! Skinnier, though, and softwood. I … Continue reading →

I’m on my way back from a wedding in the Philadelphia area and it hasn’t been easy to upload pictures on the go, so these will be out of sequence. Tuesday we left the Philadelphia area. Midday we stopped at … Continue reading →