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For some reason I'd never been to Philadelphia before the weekend of this trip. One would think I would have during all those years living in New Jersey in the early 2000s, but the closest I ever got was a visit to the museum ship USS New Jersey across the river in Camden, NJ. Of course I was still living with my parents then so any trips I went on back then were all their ideas. So of course, when thinking of weekend trips I could take during my temporary stay in Maryland, Philly was one of the first places that came to mind, and that's where I spent the weekend of August 14-15, 2021.
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Lightning in a Bottle is put on every year by a promoter called the DoLab. This outfit also sponsors pavilions and stages and such at other festivals like Coachella, but LIB is their flagship event. It typically happens over Memorial Day weekend somewhere in California. When I went, May 23-27, 2018, it was at Lake San Antonio which is in rural Monterey County in the middle of the state. In 2019 it moved to another venue and, unsurprisingly, was canceled for not only 2020 but 2021 as well.
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So far on this blog we've looked at all those museums and memorials in Berlin, as well as the German Unity exhibits in neighboring Potsdam. Now, finally, we'll get to the actual experience of backpacking in Berlin on a four-day weekend.
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One goal I had while living in Germany was to visit somewhere, anywhere in the former East, other than East Berlin. With it becoming increasingly unlikely that I'd have time to hit up Leipzig or Dresden that year, I decided to spend some time in Potsdam, which was a half-hour S-Bahn ride away from the center of Berlin. Potsdam was the site of a pivotal conference at the end of World War II, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to make plans for the future of postwar Europe. During the 41 years when there were two Germanies, Potsdam was part of East Germany, though right next to the walled-off West Berlin. Today it's practically a suburb of Berlin, and is the capital of the state of Brandenburg, which completely surrounds Berlin. Before WWII, Brandenburg included Berlin which was its historical capital.
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