Thursday, September 24: Day Before the Clampdown

My Lodging

Good morning one and all. Is a beautiful September morning here in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the epicenter of Pope Francis visit to the United

Driving Down Pattison Ave

States. I woke up in South Philly and my friend gave me a ride to the

Going to the Broad Street Line

Broad Street line. Generally I will have to walk and 20th and Patterson to put in Pattison since the 17

I Got off Here

bus is not running! I pretty much figured what I have to do to get around. Walk to the Broad Street line walk to my destination.

World Meeting of Familes

Here is a PDF file showing the detoured mass transit lines.

I made it to the sunrise and then sat down and had a little intellectual conversation at the La Colombe

The View at Coffee Joe

I'm  going to work today there seems to be an erie calm over
the city that and I am pretty far from the

The Window at Born Yesterday

SEPTA Welcomes WMOF

main security zone. That security zone in West Philly starts @ 38th. I read online that this is number eight

TD Bank Joins in the Welcome

and get up-to-date pope information text to my phone. I just type in the word Papalvisit  The phone

number is 888–777 This will give you updates about the pope visit and stuff.

It's now 3:05 PM it should be the beginning of rush hour but apparently there will

Singing Competition 

be no rush hour this evening.

58th and Market 3:05pm

The schools are closed and other things will be closed soon. Meanwhile at work we all plugged away looking forward to the day off. Some folks had a sing-along competition and

Facing 42nd and Walnut

it was pretty fun. Work ended and in my exhaustion went over to Pat's

Where I got Dinner

house for dinner. I got the food from Kobobbish and we enjoyed

Dinner with Pat

the delicious vegetarian combination. We then watched 2 YouTube videos of infamous airline disasters.

These videos showed how and why these accidents happened. By then it was 8:00 PM and I had to get my butt on the hustle to get to South Philly before the

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security clampdown which would be starting at

Sharon in Her Room

10 PM. I took a cab to Fairmount to get my meds and drop off stuff. I said hi to Sharon and she said

Uber on I-76

back in her in her bedroom for the first time in three months. She looks very happy. I then called Uber and got myself quickly back to South Philly in time. The cabdriver was very friendly. We talked about the

Arriving in South Philly

security clampdown and how the highways will be closing very

The Instructions

soon. He said I was his last ride. I came to the Philly fed the dogs and

Outside my Window

cats and crashed I need a good nights sleep