More Than Disney, The Stops We’ll Make Along the Way – Philadelphia

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this in the past, but Allison and I are planning to drive to Florida and back as part of our Epic Disney Adventure.  We figure that getting to Disney and back has to be as epic as the visit to Disney itself.  For the next few post I’m going to talk about some of the stops we plan on making on our way to and from Walt Disney World.  Most of these “plans” are works in progress, and we’re constantly changing our minds as we go.  Some stops will be long, others only a few hours, but we want to taste a little bit of the USA before we go visit the House of Mouse.

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Our plans for Philadelphia at this point are very quick.  We have a friend in Philly that might help us out because we don't have more than a quick afternoon, and we want to do three things:  We want to eat a Philly cheese steak, we want to climb the stairs from Rocky, and we want to see the Liberty Bell.  The Philly cheese steak seems like the best thing one could eat if you only have one meal in Philadelphia, at least from a nostalgia stand point.  I'm sure there's better restaurants, and maybe we're missing something really tasty, but it just seems wrong to miss this sandwich.  The stairs from Rocky are really just a photo op, actually I haven't seen the movie Rocky in so long, I think you could probably show me any stairs in Philadelphia and I'd believe that they were the stairs from Rocky.

The Liberty Bell on the other hand actually has some connection to our trip.  While reading about Disney, I learned an interesting little fact about Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom.  In the center of Liberty Square is a copy of the Liberty Bell, in fact, this copy is one of the best copies every made.  At one point they made 50 copies of the Liberty Bell to be distributed to every state, cast directly off of the original.  The thing is, Pennsylvanian already had a Liberty Bell, the real one, so they didn't need a copy.  Walt Disney decided that this copy would be perfect for his all American theme park and bought it for Disney World.  So I'd like to see the original Liberty Bell, and see the copy, to see how similar they actually are.