By 10 we were roaming the property of Storm King (60 miles north of NYC) to admire the huge sculptures by the greats: John Knight, Maya Lin, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Calder, and Richard Serra.
If you like corporate art this is the ultlimate!
It was a nice experience walking through the valley of New York, but now on to more serious business, to the other side of the Hudson river - the Dia Beacon!!
This fabulous museum is a former nabisco building that was built in 1929. Each huge space is dedicated to individual artists such as Andy Warhol, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Agnes Martin, and Michael Heizer (way too many men for a contemporary art museum)
And once again, Richard Serra:
On to Philly in under 3 hours!
The Mütter Museum is a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment. The museum is located in The College of Physicians, and the original purpose of the collection in 1858, was medical research and education.
The museum is best known for its large collection of skulls:
and anatomical specimens including a wax model of a woman with a human horn growing out of her forehead, the tallest skeleton on display in North America,
a nine-foot-long human colon that contained over 40 pounds of fecal matter, and the body of the mysterious Soap Lady, whose corpse was turned into a soapy substance called adipocere. Many wax models from the early 19th century are on display as are numerous preserved organs and body parts. The museum also hosts a collection of teratological specimens (preserved human fetal specimens), a malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland's hard palate, the conjoined liver from the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, and a growth removed from President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
These were just a couple of my personal fav's:
Creeeepy!!
This guy was very eager to welcome us into the city and take a couple of photographs with us:
Here he even had me pose with his cane!
Ahh, nothing like the smell of booze on someones breath on a hot summers day!
Speaking of corporate art, Philly is littered with em:
Now see, people of all ages can relate to this! That's why all the bourgeois land art is hidden out in the middle of nowhere...
We couldn't leave Philly without a yummy cheese steak:
I know I know, we're always photographing our food - what's up with that?!
We didn't stop in Baltimore or DC for anything more than gas & audiobooks.
And poof we made it to the Appalachian mountains. Camping in the Shenandoahs was like sleeping through a tornado. No rain, no storms, just high mountain winds.
I woke up occasionally to push the tent back on the ground...
-- Posted from April's phone
You're always photographing your food because that's the one time you're (April, especially) actually sitting somewhat still. And it's one of the best parts of a roadtrip!
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