Pittsburgh, United States Travel Blogs

I'm a hippie...or so I keep being told :)
Aug 24, 2008

I've somehow crossed over to hippie world.  Ha!  Yeah, it probably started last year about this time when I went to Nepal, was emphasized by one of my newer roomies (she's super girly!) and now I'm being lumped in per a few of  my back ...

Off to Pittsburgh
Nov 8, 2005 (4 photos)

More later.

On Our Way
Aug 25, 2008

... nbsp; The TSA wanted to confiscate Paul's small pocket knife, one that he had brought on three other recent trips from the Pittsburgh airport without any problems.  He ended up sending it home with his wife, Carolyn.  I had my bag ...

Pittsburgh
Jun 24, 2009 (18 photos)

After we left Cleveland, OH, we continued eastward to Pittsburgh, PA.  We didn't have much time to explore the city, but we drove around and took pictures.  We liked how the city is on the convergence of two rivers, which made for lots of cool ...

On the Road- East Coast Bound
Nov 7, 2005 (11 photos)

I've just finished my week of driving solo across the country. I didn't make any web updates along the way, so here's the story- I went up through Lake Tahoe on Sunday- Awesome- no traffic, clear water, 60 degrees. Utah was unbelievable. The snow- ...

46 hours later...
Oct 3, 2006 (4 photos)

Greetings from pittsburgh in pittsburgh ...
Jul 3, 2002 (3 photos)

... and how to paddle correctly we were in the water (the Allegheny River). We paddled three miles to a boat ramp next to Pittsburgh's new baseball stadium. Ben locked up the boats and we walked the city street to the FireWater for lunch. After all that ...

Chicago to Pittsburgh
Aug 9, 2006

... . Mass was said in English so I did not need to use one of theEnglish/Polish missalettes. 7:45 Depart Chicago for Pittsburgh. 8:15 Cross into Indiana and Eastern Time Zone. 8:45 South Bend 55 miles. Toledo 205 miles. 9:30 Pass through ...

Travel
Dec 10, 2007

  

Home Again!
Aug 9, 2006 (29 photos)

Hi everyone! We are home. Back to high-speed internet and cell phones. We are tired. It was about a 16 hour flight and a 3 hour drive home. I thought that we would post some more photos. This will probably be the last of them. There are captions to ...

Home home in Pittsburgi!!!!!!
Jun 2, 2009

home, thanks ADAM!!

Packing and peering over the ledge...
Jan 10, 2008

The joke starts, "So this guy walks into a bar... in China...." I wanted to drop you all a brief note about an adventure that I'm about to undertake. An opportunity has leapt up from that mysterious place where mischance and coincidence dwell to grab ...

Off to play Santa
Dec 20, 2005

... find the weirdness runs in my family. The uncanny knack to have unusual expriences must do the same. I am off again, back to Pittsburgh. I managed to go three years without one trip to the city, and then I am there two times in one month. Oh well, ...

Independence
Jul 4, 2006

... sounds of firecrackers ratcheting in the distance, and the visions of picnic tables draped in red, white, and blue. Instead, the Pittsburgh sky delivers rain, and the only sound beside pounding rain on leaves is the rather plaintive and soggy cry of a ...

Anticipation (part 2)
Apr 3, 2009

Okay, so i have less than four days left to spend here in the Burgh, and well, guess what...it's raining. Big surprise, huh? so just a run down of things happening in the US, Madonna got her adoption bid rejected, scientist have found a rocket fuel ...

Home safe and sound
Sep 22, 2008

We finally arrived in Pittsburgh and left the airport about 10:15pm and headed our separate ways to our homes.  Everyone made it safely home.  To all of our new Scottish friends, words cannot express our gratitude for your kindness and ...

My flight leaves Pittsburgh and my travels begin..
Feb 4, 2006

... I will be arriving in Pisa on February 5, 2006 around 8:30am, from which I will then travel to Florence. In between Pittsburgh and Florence I have a stop in Chicago O'Hare's airport. My actual air-time will be about 12 hours. I'm really nervous about ...

Beijing...really?
Dec 11, 2007

The emails have been sent.  The contracts on the way.  Am I really going to Beijing?  It all seems so surreal at this point.   Perhaps a month, even fewer days until I am on the flight to China.   What is next?  ...

Pittsburgh, PA
Jan 11, 2008

Pittsburgh, PA

Greetings from the bookfield!
Jun 5, 2005

Hey all, So here's the deal... I start my days no later than 7:59am and don't stop earlier than 9:30 at night. So needless to say, working over 80 hours a week doesn't leave much time for emails and stuff. In fact this is the first time I've been ...

The End of the Beginning (of the Adventure)
Oct 18, 2008 (15 photos)

... the end, then a delay landing due to weather in Atlanta.  10.5 hrs later we were down - YES !  We got into Pittsburgh around 10:30 last night and John picked us up at the airport (thanks!) .  After being up for 24 hrs., unpacking, and ...

Travel
Dec 24, 2007

  

8 countries, 4 weeks, 2 pair of underwear
Jan 2, 2008

Hello all, Happy New Year!  This is my initial entry for my first trip to Europe.  Mark, Derek, and I are departing from D.C. on Thursday afternoon.  After about an hour stop over at JFK we are off to Paris, and the adventure will be ...

Travel
Dec 18, 2007

  

I'm Leaving......for real this time....but this is
Apr 7, 2009

Okay...well this is too good not to share. Well, as most of you know, I have been planning this trip obsessively--yes Betina it's quite possible you were right and I use the term obsessive loosely here. Now getting back. This entire time, since I ...

Packed and ready to go!
May 9, 2008

... they are travel ones) for the plane rides and layovers or my MP3 player which has 3 ALASKA songs on it. We are staying in Pittsburgh at the Mainstay since our flight leaves at 6am tomorrow! We will fly to Houston which makes a lot of sense now, doesn ...

Anticipation
Mar 23, 2009 (5 photos)

Tickets Check! Passport Check! NCLEX Check! Vaccine Prophylaxis in case I get typhoid, yellow fever, or polio Check! Ps. Oral Typhoid sucks! Pss. GI distress sucks! Okay so the build up to my vacation begins now. I leave the 6th of ...

The Baseball Parks of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
May 21, 2005

... before Ellen and I climbed into our 1995 Pathfinder. We were embarking on a pilgrimage to two new ballparks. One in Pittsburgh - the other in Cincinnati. For the past 10 years ballclub owners have been building brand new retro-ballparks, in the style ...

Stupid O'Clock in the morning...
Nov 24, 2005

4:00 am!? are you kidding me?? I guess that you get when bargain hunting for fares... oh well, just means more time in the sun!! Thanks Ma & Pa (in-law) for letting us crash over night before the flight. Much Love!

one more month
Jul 24, 2005

Greetings, I have three more weeks to sell then one week to deliver and then I will be back in Houston a couple weeks after that. I've been doing pretty well and will have a great Summer if I can keep a positive attitude through to the end, that's ...