It's Like We Know What We Are Doing

Early June, 2016 When our Travel Agent met the family at Uluru , she said she was "in town" for Vivid Sydney.  I wasn't entirely sure what she meant at the time.  I thought I had read something about Vivid as we moved around the country.  But I didn't really understand what it was.  She was very excited and said she would report back when she arrived in Sydney. When we were in Hobart, I got an e-mail from our agent.  "Vivid Sydney is amazing!!  You're going to have a great time!!"  By this point, I had read a bit more about Vivid, but didn't entirely understand what we would be seeing. This.  We'd be seeing this. The Vivid Sydney website calls the festival a place where "art, technology and commerce intersect."  It began in 2009 and has grown since then.  In 2016, it was a 23 day festival, with art installations, live music and speakers scattered around the city.  Basically, you couldn't swing a dead cat without ru...

Monday, July 6th When we started figuring out this trip, it came together pretty organically.  We knew there was all of the history in Philadelphia.  And we knew there was "other."  We just had to figure out how the two would meld together. Today, we visited the "other." We are staying at the  Hilton Penn's Landing .  This was a Hotwire deal that was very much worth the price (though did not cover parking - parking was $32-ish per night, which seemed reasonable considering the parking everywhere else.  Plus, there isn't really another option when you're trying to stow your car on a road trip, so suck it up).  Penn's Landing is right on the river separating Pennsylvania from New Jersey.  And it is very walkable to the Old Town, which is where the history lives.   Because we had a Hotwire deal, we didn't have a free breakfast with our room (Boo!!).  So we did what anyone without a free breakfast would do.  We went to S...