So today i thought it'd be fun...to walk home from school. I decided this after I'd already taken the bus across the river, but still, pnc park to market square is by far the shortest leg of the trip. I walked six miles from downtown to my house, almost exactly. And better yet, I looked up the path I used on google maps, and the time it took me was within 2 minutes of the time it estimated it would take to walk (1 hr 58 minutes).Another thing: I always envisioned in my head greenfield next to squirrel hill next to oakland next to downtown. But I completely forgot the two mile stretch that is the Bluff neighborhood. Let me just say, it's a neighborhood worth forgetting. I was counting, and I saw at one point 4 boarded up buildings in a row. It's a crappy crappy crappy area. It was amazingly refreshing to walk into oakland. It was pretty much an instant change of nasty slum to shiny commercial college town. And then entering squirrel hill/shadyside... I never walked through there in the fall before... it's pretty damn wonderful. Yellow leaves coating the entire street. </shitaboutpittsburghforwhichyouhavenofr Edit: google street view pictorial representation of walking from downtown to greenfield: market square, our point of departure yep, still downtown wait a sec, when did this happen? ewwww, where am I now? hang on, do I smell civilization? and suddenly it's almost like you're back downtown pretty :3 cathedral of learning means we're halfway home. imagine this, but totally yellow mmm, so close to home i can taste it the real reason they call pittsburgh the greenest american city (360*) heres my stop! |
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