We decided to celebrate breaking the three week vacation limit by taking the day off – yes, we took a vacation from vacation. So no run this morning, we went out for breakfast (first time since Gettysburg we didn’t make our own which for me is bacon, cheese omelette, and sometimes yogurt or a banana (running days) and a bowl of cereal for My Better Half (MBH)), church via tape delay, Adult Bible Fellowship via Zoom, and minimal sightseeing (still about three miles of walking) as neither of us felt our best. It isn’t a vacation if there isn’t a death march.
After some down time, we drove to dinner (we put road in road trip), walked around the Southside afterwards, visited a gas station so that we had more than fumes in the tank and where I took the opportunity to spread more dirt on the windshield but at least got the bug guts off, and to buy milk & cheese. Homemade breakfast resumes tomorrow and we need to be ready for it.
Driving in Pittsburgh is an experience all it’s own, with an eclectic mix of bridges, elevation changes, 15 MPH curves on major streets and highways, a mishmash of neighborhood road grids that don’t align with each other, major roads that snake around for no apparent reason, plus all the usual features like people who want to go 55 in a 35 and road construction with random lane closures. Since it’s a city, you have buses and pedestrians thrown in for good measure. Why yes, I am looking forward to the day I point the car west, get on the interstate, set the cruise control, and for 600 miles just stay in the right lane except to pass. Sounds like pure bliss. Total boredom, but pure bliss.
Everyday is a good day, but some days are less exciting then others. And four paragraphs about nothing is a Seinfeld episode. At least I finished a book during my downtime. I’m glad you finished another of my posts, not everyone can.
I like to think of walking around a city as an urban hike, sounds much better that way. Lots of interesting houses in Shady Side (I didn’t name the neighborhood, I’m just staying in it).
So no selfies today, just architecture.
We walked around Carnegie-Mellon University and ignored the face mask required signs in the quad because it was a sunny, breezy day and there weren’t many people out and about.
The only thing worse than modern art is modern art on a college campus
View of the city from Flagstaff Hill. I kind of get the impression that a long time ago the city was very hilly so they did a lot of leveling and filling so now there are a bunch of flattish areas at different elevations with very steep transition zones between.
