On Wednesday, April 2nd, I hopped on Blue (my Yamaha FJR1300) and headed up to Philly to meet up with Seth Harwood for his reading of Jack Wakes Up.  My friend Rob backed out (work) and my co-worker bailed as well ("too cold"), so it was just me.  The trip to Philly was uneventful, but nice.  I rolled into the Residence Inn and spent some time discussing what to do with Blue.  Eventually the valet folks let me park her myself in the garage.

I got all checked in and then walked down to the book store early to find out what the setup was like and if I could find parking (no chance).  I also found out that the shoes I brought sucked, so I bought new ones (sucked less).  Early dinner, back to the hotel, then time to meet up with Seth.

The reading was at Robin's Bookstore, which is a strange and interesting little store.  They have a lot of "weird category" books.  Seth showed up and official reading began.  It was a reasonably small crowd, but everyone was sociable and Seth was quite personable.  He read a few parts of the book, which most of us had nearly memorized. ;) 

We hung around the store for a bit, then headed out to a bar or two.  I forget how many places we ended up at, but the first memorable one was the "Locust Rendezvous".  Nice name, eh?  A few pitchers later (and some really bad nachos) had us looking for smthng else. 

Next stop...  "Irish Pub".  That is it's name, not just a description.  A slightly higher class place, but they had Magic Hat on special, so we chilled there for a bit.  

After the "Irish Pub", we went across the street to Mackenzies (or Macdougals, Macgreggors, or smthng like that).  Better nachos, shepherds pie, better service.  All in all... better!

That pretty much wraps up the pub crawl.  I headed back to the hotel (about 4 blocks away) and assume that Seth and crew did the same.  I chilled out at the hotel, did some online stuff with my Eee and then crashed.