Meet at the big stacks at the Waterfront (lots of easy parking) for either a Homestead run by Pam Murray or a Duck Hollow/Glenwood Bridge run by those of us who can remember what we did last time.
Vacation in Your Home Town
This morning Cheryl took us on a stellar tour of Mount Washington and although there were quite a few more hills than were originally advertised, they were worth it. We ran through sections of Mount Washington that most of us had never seen before: a quaint looking business district, that included a working grocery store and an cozy family-owned breakfast place; tidy streets of sedate brick homes next to architectural digest worthy new ones and best of all Grandview Park with its lush greenery , "California without the eucalyptus." We ended the run with the classic Grandview Ave tour where we learned there will soon be a new restaurant and hotel complex. Of course we were accompanied all along our route by the sky-high views of our beautiful city and its rivers - sometimes a sneak-peak through a gap between houses, sometimes the full-on blast of a meant to be looked at view enjoyed by pricey residences sitting next too more modest ones (thousand dollar houses, million dollar views).
As if this was not enough, Cheryl provided us with coffee AND breakfast where we had the luxury of staying later than usual to discuss all manner of interesting things (at least to us).
Here is a nice story about Grandview Park: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09271/1001344-53.stm
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