Once again we are walking towards the bus station, with our backpacks on the shoulders… and without a destination, but some ideas. Certainly we will keep with us the joy of a week full of surprises. The last night in Philadelphia gave us another good concert of the Sonic Youth… Well, the tickets were sold out, but listening to them under the stars, outside the concert hall, seemed to us amazing. In Philadelphia we met a lot of friends, particularly in the hostel we felt as at home from the first day. We found nice people to talk about travels, Americas and about life in general. The atmosphere of this city is so pleasant and friendly that sometimes the perception was to be in a small town. We suggest to try finding a bed in the Bank Street Hostel!

Time is going on, we are in the travel…

We left New York with a good feeling, it showed us a lot, even if we spent there just a week. During the short journey, which took us from NYC to Philadelphia, we came in touch with a reality that the isolation of Manhattan hides carefully between the high skyscrapers… The endless metropolitan suburbs show their hard face, aged by the time and the negligence. Beside the huge highway, an agricultural territory develops, where fields and woods are interrupted by small villages or isolated ranches. It is a landscape completely different from the city and the modernity of the financial centers. The hostel we found here in Philadelphia is nice and friendly, in general the entire city appears more friendly than NYC. Obviously this same familiarity helps to show the clashing contrasts of our society: near luxurious bars and hotels survives a multitude of homelesses, “apparently” ignored by the other people. Our system makes the rest and who can’t follow the fast dynamics of our lifestyle, will live in the marginalization.

The nightlife of Philadelphia has excited us from the first day. Yesterday night we have been so lucky to take part to the concert of Cat Power. A nice guy gave us one of the two tickets, and the rest has been an intense performance: a warm voice and good arrangements.