Williamsport is located in the US State of Pennsylvania in the Lycoming County, around a 3 hour car drive away from Philadelphia. The city has about 30,000 inhabitants and lies at the bank of the East Branch of the Susquehanna River.

The surrounding area is rural-oriented, there are lots of forests and it looks a bit like the Black Forest in Germany.

Yesterday I made a little bike tour where I took these pictures. With a city map of Williamsport I left the house to get to know the city of Williamsport better. 

During my bike tour, I came by accident to this wonderful place in the forest. Sometimes it was a bit confusing until I had found the way again, because Williamsport is like the most american cities compiled in a kind of a „square system“. That means you can have found the right street, but still be travelling in the wrong direction, because the roads are very straight. I Yesterday this happened to me for sure two or three times. I then had to get off my bike and to look on the city map again.

 

 

It’s also always necessary to watch out not to get on a too busy street, because the car drivers here sometimes don’t show that much consideration to bicycle riders.

Another, less dangerous speciality here is baseball. Williamsport is the founding place of the Little League Baseball and Softball. This non-profit organization organizes baseball leagues and softball leagues for children and adolescents. Most of them are playing in the USA, but there a worldwide Little League Baseball and Softball leagues, for example also in Germany, more exactly in Berlin.

In the mean time, the Little League organization has its headquarter in South Williamsport which lies on the opposite side of the Susquehanna River.

Today I’ve visited the Little League Museum together with Brett and Bryan. In this museum, the history of Little League baseball was shown very impressively.

Many historical balls and bats were exhibited, also a baseball signed by the  former US president Barack Obama.

But the most interesting thing was the very beautiful stadium with practicing places around outside the museum where every year the Little League World Series final is taking place and the rest of the year the Little League players are training for this big event.

 

So that’s it for the moment 🙂 when I have seen more I’ll write for sure another article about the region…

 

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