Dear f'list: Philadelphia?

[da_lj]

melted_snowball and I will be in Philadelphia this weekend (Friday through Sunday). We're staying downtown, very close to City Hall

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[ketzie]

I don't know if this is up your alley, but the Mutter Museum is a creepy, and to some, interesting place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCtter_Museum

http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp

[ketzie]

Oops, I meant to say that it's at 22nd between Market and Chestnut, so it's an easy walk from City Hall.

[da_lj]

Hm. Could be fun. Thanks.

[bats22]

I have no personal useful information, but whenever I hit a new city, I try the NYT travel section--I've often had some good finds there. It looks like they have a Philadelphia overview, as well as a "36 Hours In..." (often good to find nice coffee shops, neighborhoods, and the like).

[da_lj]

Cool, thanks for the pointers. I'll remember that the next time I'm headed somewhere.

A few good ideas there, including the Rosenbach Museum & Library with ephemera from Charles Dodgson and James Joyce... and the Mutter Museum. Maybe I will go museuming after all.

[pekmez]

I think you're staying where much of my family stayed for my grandparents' anniversary celebration, based on that map.

Walk south from there (say, look up the morning glory cafe and walk in its general direction, for instance, that's what we were doing when we saw a lot of this) and you'll find a bunch of neat looking to me row houses and some alleys with very cool glass mosaics set into houses. (see my icon for an example.) the morning glory cafe was quite nice for brunch, too. :)

[da_lj]

Cool. "Club Quarters" is where the conference hotel's at. I'll look for Morning Glory Cafe and surroundings. :)

[epi_lj]

Geocaching? ;)

[da_lj]

Heh. I've enjoyed geocaching the few times I've done it with friends. But I've never gotten around to buying a GPS, because they all seem to lack some essential feature. Maybe you've had luck finding one that has Canadian data and works with Mac"? I think I've looked at a dozen that have only one or the other

[epi_lj]

Your list of features is a lot more comprehensive than mine, so I don't know the answer. I've never even tried interfacing either of ours with my Mac, although I hear that there are Mac utilities that support most Garmin models. That said, the one we have for the car now does both car and walking, has a built-in rechargeable screen, has an SD card slot (I think you can get microSD -> SD adapters), doesn't require any kind of data plan, and is expandable. Whether you can expand it via a *Mac* or do anything else via a *Mac*, I have no idea. What is it that you want to do with it vis a vis the computer? I could try it.

[da_lj]

Most practically, to get data updates, but I suppose that's what the SD card's for. But less practically, a bunch of the GPSs I've seen have trumpeted how good their PC software is (I suppose it's for drawing up routes on your computer, then passing them to the GPS; or passing your routes back to your computer). I don't know how important I'd find that feature, to be honest.

Which Garmin do you use in your car? I'll look it up. :)

Thanks. :)

[morgan_starfire]

I am so envious. Within walking distance

[da_lj]

Wow, thanks. I knew about... half of these. :) Awesome choices.