#Rocky balboa music playlist series

Philadelphia played an important role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States – The Declaration of Independence was signed there on the 4th of July, 1776. It was one of the 13 original founding states and came into being as a result of a royal land grant given to William Penn, an English Quaker and son of the state’s namesake. Pennsylvania has wide stretches of farmland, forests and mountains but it also has Philadelphia, the sixth largest city in the US.Ī few random facts about Pennsylvania. Yet again however we are entering a state that cannot be neatly summed up as having a single character. Anyway, as it’s now been over three months since I entered New Jersey (must have lost track of time in those vast gambling emporiums in Atlantic City), the great state of Pennsylvania now beckons.

#Rocky balboa music playlist series

Looking back at the “history” for this post (we get that here at WordPress), I started writing it back in November! I really need to pick up the pace with this series otherwise it looks as if I’m going to be in my dotage before I make it all the way round to my final destination, Florida. For anyone new to this place, I have a continuous route map where I enter and leave each state only once. Suggestions for the next leg always welcome! Welcome to this occasional series where I am attempting a virtual journey around the 50 States of America in song.