Driving to Philly

We decided to travel down to Philadelphia on Friday and drive halfway to Binghamton where we got a motel for the night. We have been splitting up our trip to Philly lately because of fatigue and my sore back but also since we've been going to Katie's house in Mt Airy it has added significant travel time of about an hour during rush hour into the city if we did it at one time. For many years we stayed at my sister Betsy's house after taking the Quakertown exit from the turnpike. That always saved us a lot of time and hassle. 

Friday turned out to be an OK day for driving weatherwise but there were a lot of trucks on the road and a storm coming. We took our time and got to the Comfort Inn motel around 3 pm. We relaxed in our room for a couple of hours and then walked down the road just a bit to the pizza joint we've eaten at a couple of times before. The food was great as always. It's one of the reasons we stay at that particular motel.

The weather was going to be bad the following day because of a tropical storm coming up the east coast. We went to bed early so we figured we'd get up early and get a good start before the rains came. It worked. We drove down from Binghamton and we made it down into the Scranton area before we ran into any rain. It really wasn't too bad but we did have some areas of heavy rain but it was isolated. Then we got down into the Delaware Valley and it wasn't too bad. The worse part of the trip was the construction zones of limited lanes that were especially bad on the PA turnpike. Instead of taking the turnpike and expressway all the way into the city we got off at Lansdale and took the old familiar route of Sumneytown Pike and Bethlehem Pike to the city. We made it down to Katie's house for lunch. We were expecting it to be raining hard in Philly but we got in during a lull in the storm. It wasn't raining when we arrived and as were were approaching Katie's house we saw Todd taking Stella for a walk during the break in the rain. I was able to bring in our bags to the house without getting rained on.