Day 19 - August 15th
The day started groggily, we'd been kept awake by the guests in the room next to ours talking and taking photos until 2am. The rooms had an adjoining door which had a noticeable gap underneath, enough that we could see the flashes from their camera and hear enough of their conversation to know what kind of photos they were taking.
We had breakfast at the B&B and went for another walk around Philadelphia to see some more sites, both feeling tired and grumpy (although I think I was grumpiest). We then collected the car and drove slightly out of town to the Eastern State Penitentiary, one of the oldest prisons in the country. It was an eerie place and there was an interesting audio tour narrated by Steve Buscemi, cool!
Today was the end of our road trip so we embarked on the short drive from Philadelpia back to New York to drop the car off. According to the sat-nav the trip should only have taken about 90 minutes but the reality was well over 3 hours - just queueing to get through the final tunnel into Manhattan took over an hour, and by the time we dropped the car off I was quite happy to see the back of it.
We checked into our hotel up on 103rd street (quite a way from downtown but handily right next to a subway station), freshened up and then headed out to a jazz club called Smoke just a block away on 104th street where we had a great evening listening to live jazz - the food and cocktails were pretty good too.
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