Friday, November 14, 2008

Long haul: Pittsburgh - Silver Spring, MD


PSA: Whatever you have heard about Pittsburgh, PA, forget it (unless you've heard that Pittsburgh is beautiful and amazing; that, you can hang on to). Christine and I have a city crush on Pittsburgh and on Mr. Rogers's Literal Neighborhood and on Luthor Towers the Pittsburgh Plate & Glass building, and potentially on many other things in our new favorite Western-Pennsylvania metropolis.


I repeat: Pittsburgh rules. (This is Station Square, which you can reach by car or by funicular. Funicular!)


The Grand Concourse, train-station-cum-restaurant. So, so beautiful. We ate at the bar.


More of the Grand Concourse. You should see the bathrooms (but the pictures didn't turn out).


Pennsylvania, late fall.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your pictures of Pittsburgh look much better than the football game that was on yesterday - it looked like a blizzard. Brrr.

Anonymous said...

Your pictures of Pittsburgh look much better than the football game that was on yesterday - it looked like a blizzard. Brrr.

Unknown said...

Yay Pittsburgh! I love Station Square and the view from the top of the incline. And Cory took me to the Grand Concourse for an anniversary or birthday or something a couple years ago, and it was awesome. So neat that you were in my (sort of) city!

- Erica (erries from LJ)

Liz said...

Erica,

I was thinking of you the whole time I was there! I *loved* Pittsburgh, and I was all, "Erica comes here all the time! Awesome!"