The Trip: Day 16
Day 16
Fairfax County, Virginia to Willoughby, Ohio.
If you plan on traveling through Maryland and Ohio, don't do it on a Wednesday...We got to the Maryland border, crossed it, and stopped at the first Welcome Center. And didn't feel very welcome since the place was closed! No Maryland map for me...
Yeah, so I started collecting maps in Florida. If I had been thinking more clearly, I would have started back in Arizona and would now have a tidy little stack to catalog the states I've been in.
So, there was no map in Maryland, but we did manage to get one in Pennsylvania. We traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike and traveled through Pittsburgh. That wasn't originally the plan, we were going to go a different route, but I begged and so we did it my way.
I have looked at Pittsburgh before, as a possible place to relocate. But it's hard to decide you can live in a place if you've never actually been there. So, I wanted to get at least a fleeting glance at the place before saying, yeah, I can handle that!
My first impression of Pittsburgh is that it reminds me of the Amalfi coast of Italy. It's hilly (or mountainous, if you've never seen the Rockies before), it is at the confluence of two rivers which flow out of the Ohio, and the houses are historical. The Amalfi coast is hilly (or, in this case, actually mountainous), it is on the Mediterranean, and the houses are historical. At any rate, I liked what I saw.
My second observation is that there are a lot of bridges in Pittsburgh...and they're all made of steel (go figure). But, despite this, or maybe because of it, the bridges have a certain appeal.
Fairfax County, Virginia to Willoughby, Ohio.
If you plan on traveling through Maryland and Ohio, don't do it on a Wednesday...We got to the Maryland border, crossed it, and stopped at the first Welcome Center. And didn't feel very welcome since the place was closed! No Maryland map for me...
Yeah, so I started collecting maps in Florida. If I had been thinking more clearly, I would have started back in Arizona and would now have a tidy little stack to catalog the states I've been in.
So, there was no map in Maryland, but we did manage to get one in Pennsylvania. We traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike and traveled through Pittsburgh. That wasn't originally the plan, we were going to go a different route, but I begged and so we did it my way.
BELOW: Smile, You're In Pennsylvania!
I have looked at Pittsburgh before, as a possible place to relocate. But it's hard to decide you can live in a place if you've never actually been there. So, I wanted to get at least a fleeting glance at the place before saying, yeah, I can handle that!
BELOW: Left: Amalfi Coast, Italy Right: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
My first impression of Pittsburgh is that it reminds me of the Amalfi coast of Italy. It's hilly (or mountainous, if you've never seen the Rockies before), it is at the confluence of two rivers which flow out of the Ohio, and the houses are historical. The Amalfi coast is hilly (or, in this case, actually mountainous), it is on the Mediterranean, and the houses are historical. At any rate, I liked what I saw.My second observation is that there are a lot of bridges in Pittsburgh...and they're all made of steel (go figure). But, despite this, or maybe because of it, the bridges have a certain appeal.
BELOW: The bridges of Allegheney County.
Although we went over the right bridge (Fort Duquesne), we didn't see Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But we did see PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Although we went over the right bridge (Fort Duquesne), we didn't see Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But we did see PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
BELOW: PNC Park
When we got to the Ohio border the Welcome Center was closed...no Ohio map for me. But we made it to our motel in Willoughby without any further ado. That night we stayed in (we had half a Subway sandwich each that we'd saved up from lunch) and rested before the next big thing.
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