Philadelphia has loads of interesting historic sites, but there's a lot more to do while you're there.
It’s the end of another month, and November was a great one here, with lots of love for our Pittsburgh articles. In December, my featured travel destination will be Austin, Texas, with a new Austin article running every Monday. In addition, I’ll have a post about a silly attraction in Iowa called the Farm Toy Museum, another road trip tips post, and an article about airline fees (I actually don’t mind them!) Stay tuned.
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Three fascinating Pittsburgh museums: Warhol, Heinz History and Fort Pitt
By now, you’ve probably seen my most epic post to date, 66 More Things I Love About Pittsburgh, since I promoted it like crazy. You may have missed this earlier post about three of the city’s most interesting museums, including my favorite museum anywhere, the Warhol. You must experience the pillow room!
November travel links of interest:
Strux Travel: Side Trip – Winchester Mystery House in San Jose
People have told me about this place for years and I’m disappointed to say I never got around to checking it out. Michael describes in great detail this weird house, built by an eccentric heiress, that has secret passageways, doors that lead to nowhere, and a creepy obsession with the number 13. It sounds just like a mansion from an episode of Scooby Doo – all it needs is a trap door to capture Daphne and someone to knock of Velma’s glasses!
The Travelin’ Gringo: Testing… Testing… The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas
Here’s a cool place I missed when I hit up Vegas. The Atomic Museum describes the history of nuclear testing that took place outside Las Vegas in the 1950s. Glen at the Travelin’ Gringo provides photos of the museum’s artifacts, displays and newspaper coverage. I wish I had known about this when I was in town.
Globetrotter Girls: Go Beyond Philadelphia’s historic sites
There’s so much to do in the City of Brotherly Love, how can you even know where to start? If you want to move beyond the Liberty Bell and cheesesteaks, Jess and Dani provide a nice batch of markets, mosaics, murals and micro-brews worth checking out. That reminds me, I need to get back to Philly soon!
A Dangerous Business: You can live a “normal” life and travel too
Here’s a great post for anyone who has ever wished they could travel as often as travel bloggers. Amanda points out that even if you have a 9-to-5 job, you can save money and save up vacation time to make your travel dreams come true. That’s how I got started!
Christopher Elliott: Passenger forced to stand for a seven-hour airline flight
This one was all over the news. On a full flight, one man ended up with an obese man sitting next to him, forcing him to stand for the entire flight. And this wasn’t just any flight; it was a direct Philadelphia-to-Alaska flight. Seven hours! There’s absolutely no way I would have done that. How bout you?
I like how you include links in your round-up that aren’t just from the top ten travel blogs.
I also can’t believe I never went to the Winchester Mystery House – I went to school only a few miles away from there!
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It’s funny how we sometimes miss some of the local attractions!
Winchester House actually has a night tour thing during Halloween. I wanted to go so bad since they only use flashlights during the tour (more scary that way).
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That does sounds scary… and a lot of fun!
I live in Atlanta and I be I haven’t done half of the great attractions here in my area! I guess living in an area makes me complacent about the fabulous stuff in our own hometowns.
I must say my favorite Atlanta area haunt is the Calaway Gardens butterfly house – incredible!
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Yeah, I too like this concept of giving some interesting links at the end of the month.
Some of those posts I have already gone through. Great list.
Looking forward to December.
Have a wonderful weekend Scott:)
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