Walking along the Vine Street Expressway, there are several interesting buildings and more examples of the large murals that are found throughout the city.
The view of the Central Business District from “behind” is quite nice.
Once you reach Fairmount Park, you turn onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which is lined with flags from all of the nations of the world. At the end of the Parkway, the 72 stone steps leading up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art come into view.
These are the steps that are commonly known by most tourists as the “Rocky Steps”. Yes, I did act like the typical tourist and run up them, before raising my arms in celebration, the Rocky theme song playing in my head.
After a very intensely packed 1 day in Philadelphia, we strolled along the bank of the Schuylkill River back to 30th Street Station, to catch the train back to New York.
