ty fam! <3

Seemir you have to be careful, I've heard that theres a lot of Americans and Rednecks like Turt in the northeast and they'll try and take your tech as its "Damnnabbit forgenie black magic!"

i'd be surprised if i find any rednecks in the Northeast

They're everywhere in the Ameircan wastes Seemir, EVERYWHERE

Do you have a preference for types of restaurants? How about museums; is there anything you're especially interested in? Science? History? Natural history?

My wife's aunts live in Philly, and last month we took a two-week trip to there, south Jersey, and south Delaware, so I could maybe give you some ideas for those areas.

for restaurants, i wouldn't mind a good New York style pizza place that isn't swarmed at all hours, but other than that any bar & grill would work. i'd even be open to some seafood places if there were any (i almost never have seafood). for museums, i'd be most interested in any tech / science topic, maybe some transportation museums as well. anything worth looking at, i suppose :P

but yes, please, give me ideas! :D

I don’t profess to be an expert on New York-style pizza, but I suspect you’ll find more of that in north Jersey, or New York City itself, of course. I know that pizza is a big deal on the boardwalks, though—we went to the Ocean City boardwalk for this trip, and they actually have separate disposal receptacles for pizza boxes. This article talks a little about boardwalk pizza:

https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/.....ardwalk-pizza/

We didn’t have any boardwalk pizza (I may need to remedy that on a future trip), but it sounds like the crust tends to be crispy, whereas a NY-style pizza is foldable, so I don’t think they’re quite the same thing. Boardwalks in general are a unique experience.

I haven’t really spent any time in north Jersey or New York, only going through there in transit to elsewhere. It’s funny to think that New Jersey is the state with the highest population density overall, which I believe is mostly due to the parts of it in the NYC metro area in the north, because when you go through so many parts of the south, it’s very undeveloped.

There are definitely seafood places. I’d say that Maryland and Delaware, on Chesapeake and Delaware bays, are where you would find a lot of those, since that’s crab country. We went to a place called Crabby Dick’s in Rehoboth Beach, DE. There is also a location in Delaware City, not far from Wilmington in the northern part of the state, so whether you’re in the north or south of Delaware, you won’t be too far from one. And yes, much like the convenience store chain Kum & Go in the Midwest, Crabby Dick’s is totally in on the jokes their name invites, and they sell merchandise.

There is a ferry that takes you between Lewes, DE, (not far from Rehoboth Beach) and the southern tip of New Jersey, Cape May, which itself is notable for having the highest concentration of Victorian housing in the country outside of San Francisco. So you don’t have to be all the way up near Wilmington to get from Delaware to New Jersey. We saw dolphins and even a whale on our trips back and forth across Delaware Bay. Link to ferry site: https://www.cmlf.com/.

I’d recommend the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as a museum that covers all the bases you mentioned, since it is a general science/tech museum that includes some exhibitions on planes and trains: https://www.fi.edu/exhibitions.

If “transportation” is mostly code for rail transportation, and you’re interested in grand train stations and/or just beautiful buildings in general, you can’t miss Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. That station, along with a few others that you’ll be near, pops up on this list: https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/.....ons-in-the-us.

Speaking of which, how are you getting around the area? If you’re going between the major cities on the Northeast Corridor (Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York), you could easily get between those cities by Amtrak, and around them by walking and public transportation. Not having a car would make it harder to visit places like Crabby Dick’s and the boardwalks, though. Personally, we rented a car for the New Jersey and Delaware portion of our trip, but having a car in the cities would likely be a huge hassle.

We stayed with my wife’s aunts in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, near the Philadelphia Museum of Art (site of the “Rocky Steps” that Sylvester Stallone famously ran up during his training in the first Rocky movie), so pretty much all our eating in Philadelphia was done in that area. I could certainly give you recommendations if you’re going to be in that area at all. While not a science/tech museum, I will say that Eastern State Penitentiary, which is also in Fairmount, is what I would consider a place “worth looking at,” whose only peer in this country may be somewhere like Alcatraz. I’ve never been to Alcatraz, but it’s more difficult and expensive to reach than ESP, and your time appears to be limited, but you can spend all day at ESP—which we pretty much did, getting there relatively early and leaving at closing time.

There’s tons of stuff in this part of the country, though, and I didn’t touch that much of it. I’d be happy to ask in UTOpia for any other suggestions that people might have, if you’d like me to. But you can probably do a little bit of googling and looking at maps and find pretty much anything you’re looking for.

ooh, all of those sound great! i'm not a "foamer" (what apparently people call railroad enthusiasts) but transportation museums are fascinating nonetheless, and i know a few people who'd appreciate the visits i'd make. i'll make note of that.

i plan on finding a safe place to plonk my car down and for the most part rely on local transportation to take me places. i might also tag along with other furry friends i know exist in the area, see if they'd want to spend a few moments out and about ^,..,^