Liberty Bell GPS art: celebrating liberty on the Fourth of July

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This morning @trang and I got up early to embark on an elite #steemphilly tradition… that of the famed Liberty Bell run. This 10.5 mile route, popular among Philly Long Distance Runners, takes one by many of the most touristic sites the city has to offer. Allegedly, this is the third year that this has been an official course.

We started out converting the written directions into a digital GPX route via ViewRanger. Then we set out on the run. Unfortunately, a small operator error while biking last night led to me diving face first onto a cement sidewalk. Luckily, the rain had transformed the sidewalk into a Slip ‘N Slide®, but still my knee was a bit too battered to run. Hence, we called an audible and switched to bikes.

Here are our tracks on Strava from @trang's Garmin VivoActive Watch:

Or on ViewRanger with a satellite background from my Pixel 2:

Notice how the track gets wiggly downtown as the massive skyscrapers interfered with the precision of our GPS instrumentation. That wasn't the only attraction downtown! We got to see the aftermath of yesterday's subterranean water main explosion:

You may notice in our tracks that part of the red outline appears bolded. That's because we initially passed the crack and had to backtrack to complete it. This extended the mileage from 10.5 to 14.0. For those who're curious, here's a picture of the actual Liberty Bell and crack, stationed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia:

Image from Pixabay (a great resource of public domain images).

Since this was @trang's idea to do the route and because she did half the work, I'm making her a 50% beneficiary on this post!

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1. Ultralight travel to Key West
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3. How to hammock like a Steemian Boss in Cambridge
4. Glory aboard American Airlines flight 501
5. The Centurion PHL Challenge: 8 specialty crafted cocktails
6. The Delta Sky Club ATL Challenge: all 2 specialty cocktails
7. Mississippi's best hiking: backpacking in Noxubee Hills
8. Epic 80-mile bike ride to Limerick's Nuclear Reactors
9. The Centurion SFO Challenge: revealing 8 exclusive cocktails
10. A saga of 14 friends: returning to California
11. Sending my brother off to Africa with a blaze

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