exploring

Well, we didn't make it down to the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market yesterday because we unintentionally walked half a marathon. We walked up Kelly drive along the Schuykill River (our regular morning exercise) and ended up walking all the way to the Wissahickon River. There was a huge rainstorm here Tuesday night that had it running full and the vegetation was lush. Truly a beautiful walk, but we were so exhausted after that we decided to put off the PRPM.

Along the walk we happened upon the Restaurant Depot. It's kind of like a stand-alone Costco and open to business owners only. Decent prices and plenty of the kinds of restaurant supplies we'll need next year.

We walked back through Fairmount Park and explored some of the beautiful houses hidden away up there.


We explored Germantown as well. There is some amazing architecture up there (evidenced below) but on the whole the area is extremely poor and dilapidated. No way we could live there, let alone open our shop.


Right next door across the bridge Ruben found East Falls again, the area where the governor and Senator Arlen Specter live. Once he makes a governor's salary (or at least once the shop takes off) we may be able to afford it, lol.

We tried to head to Moe's Hot Dog House, the only real competition in town but they close right after lunch. We'll try again today. Pretty interesting menu, but it's way down below Graduate Hospital in a very industrial part of town. I think we'll do fine if we stay up in the Fairmount as we're thinking. (Also, they use only Dietz & Watson dogs, which are way too salty for us. We'll use the more quality ingredients we've been finding at good butchers here and in Lancaster.)