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Let’s Go: A Day Trip to Philadelphia and The Barnes Foundation!

Barnes Foundation Exterior Shot
All Photos By Gail

Well, New York City really has it all (oh yeah); that much is true. One of the many millions of reasons that living in Manhattan totally rules is that, should you wish to seek adventure beyond the city limits, it is possible to make an awesome Day Trip to another city located in an entirely different state! You can’t do that from LA, that is for sure. The NYC Day Trip is a thing to be taken advantage of and enjoyed as often as possible. Because sometimes, if you do your homework, you can experience an entire lifetime in one day.

Barnes Foundation Exterior Shot

For a couple of years, my Art Husband Geoffrey and I have yearned to visit the Barnes Foundation, an art museum in downtown Philadelphia with an amazing backstory that we learned all about from watching the highly polarizing 2009 documentary The Art of The Steal — a film that we both absolutely loved. When a friend of Geoffrey’s posted on FaceBook about taking a day trip from NYC to The Barnes, we decided to do some investigating of our own.
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