Delaware City is a small town on the Delaware River out in the country. It was nice to have our car there, we had taken it there a couple of weeks earlier from AYB. Our first day, we took a ferry boat to Pea Patch Island to visit Fort Delaware. The island is in the middle of the Delaware River. The Fort was finished in 1859 and during the Civil War it housed as many as 13,000 Confederate prisoners. The next day we drove down to Cape May, our next stop in the boat, to check out the marinas and see what was there. We found a nice marina and made a reservation for the following week. Cape May is a nice old town with many many old victorian houses. But more about that in my next post. The next two days we spent in Philadelphia seeing the sights. The first day we drove the car; traffic and $26 to park the car made us decide to take the train into Philly the next day. Fifteen dollars round trip with the old persons discount on the train was a better deal. We headed back south on the train at the end of the day out of the Amtrak station. Ironically, at the very same time our train was leaving the station, the Amtrak train that derailed north of Philadelphia was leaving the same station. When we got back to the boat we saw the train wreck on the TV and we all felt uneasy about our train trip. The rest of our week at Delaware City was spent working on the boat and finding a place to store the car for a month. We will retrieve it once we are in New York on the Hudson. On Friday, May 15 we left Delaware City headed down Delaware Bay in open water to Cape May.
Fort Delaware.
Rifle demonstration.
Philly Cheesesteak.
Liberty Bell.
Independence Hall.
Amtrak Station.
Philadelphia City Hall.
Philly Cheesesteak... the best in the world!!! :-)
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