Pittsburgh Travel Blogs

The Pittsburgh Penguins are finally in the Stanley Cup finals again, which is cause for celebration. The Mellon Arena decided to open it's door and sell tickets for $ 5.00 ( all of which went to charity) and show the game on the Jumbo Tron and there was free parking. So myself and some friends and …

            Growing up, Pittsburgh was the closest big city, and we would take advantage of the theater and museums from time to time.  Once in awhile, we drove past the Cathedral of Learning, the visual centerpoint of the University of Pi…

I am back to the states, and I can't believe how quickly the time flew by! I wish I could turn back the clock and re-live the beautiful time I had in Palermo.

     So the day finally arrives, and everything seems to have gone as planned, the boot is off, the shoes broke in, the packing completed. The packing, ah the packing, and the new weight limits for international flights on Continental, the bane of my vacation existence. Now I ha…

At least I think I am! I wasn't sure what to pack, everyone says "Layers, layers" but layers for me is a top (one) and a jacket! I also got my waterproof jacket, gloves, hat, insulated shoes and a scarf; along with a passport, boarding pass, clothes, money, 2 cameras, 5 memory cards (each one a dif…

So I woke up really late since I was out until 3AM or so the night before... I got out of bed around 11:30AM but when my mom came home from work I was still in my pajama's kicking back in the recliner with a tissue box, some cough medicine and some hot tea with honey next to me.  My mom looked…

Suzi's mom is taking us to the Pittsburgh airport for our afternoon Continental flight to Newark, NJ. From here, we leave in the evening for an overnight flight to Frankfurt, Germany. How much sleep will I actually get? I got my mp3 player all ready with the 80's song "99 luft ballons" (the Ge…

I get up to the Olive Garden to get Kristi (sybariticangel) and we head down to Castle Shannon to get the T-train (our version of a subway).  I didn't want to deal with the traffic downtown so we decided to do it this way... I didn't have to worry about getting there, road closures and getting…

While I was out in Pittsburgh for four days for a wedding, I really only had one day to take in some of the sights. We decided to take a fenicular up to Mount Washington for lunch. After that, we went to Phipps Conservatory because we heard the glass artist Dale Chihuly did a spectacular exhibition…

Pittsburgh is largely a city of many neighborhoods, and it can be kind of confusing if you don’t know the area.  I am going to attempt here to give a bit of info on the major neighborhoods.  I am not going to go into detail about the suburbs (therefore, if the neighborhood isn’t liste…

The Mets ended up blowing a 5 run lead... but the fireworks show and the STYX performance washed that memory away

Ibrahim, (varol) had a birthday on July 24th and I looked at his profile photo and thought, I could give him a gift by changing his shot. I downloaded the shot and did a little lighting and color changes and I hope he is happy with the outcome.  Happy Birthday, Ibrahim!!   If this is a…

     Well, it was that time of year when Kerry and I (especially me) get antsy about our next vacation and the thought of not going anywhere for a period of time was driving me crazy. We had finally decided that we thought that 7 to 10 days in London sounded like great fun. We e…

So I left at 7:15AM on Thursday... I had to be back at work at 3PM for a meeting and an interview so hopefully I get a job when I move.  I gave myself plenty of time... 8 hours... it should take max 7 hours and a minumum of 6.5 hours!  So I head off, set my GPS and start going with it..…

You know what? So when I fly I always want to fly past the city you’re in… especially when there’s a sunrise/sunset! I think it’s really beautiful. So I left PIT this morning at 6:15am…just in time for the sunrise. Well, I get on t he plane… I have a window seat and I see Pittsburgh in …