Next Sunday the happily returned Aimee will lead a run through Frick Park starting at Blue Slide Park - also now infamously a hit album by Pittsburgh's own rapper Mac Miller, who I used to see regularly when he was in diapers. Don't even think of googling the lyrics: it's the end of innocence. (For newbies - this is the playground located at the intersection of Beechwood Blvd. and Nicholson St.)
During last week's run I was talking so much I can barely recall where Karen led us: we started at Commonplace, and then I think the next thing I knew we were on the Chatham campus, but when I looked around again we were in Frick Park? It was a lovely run, at any rate. I'm also attributing this lapse to jet lag, which connects nicely with what appeared to be the day's theme: travel! To Shanghai, the Grand Canyon, Paris, Amsterdam, and other points, with some of us endorsing the beauties of travel planned and arranged by experts, like those nice people who arrange for vans to drive alongside your bike routes through the Loire Valley. Also the extraordinary phenomenon of finding stays in people's apartments over the internet: AirBNB, VRBO, TripAdvisor - which can range from awful to sublime. And wasn't it true that we got our coffees to the strains of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by Peter Paul & Mary? Following which we heard some "Tales of Lower Waldron", which despite its name is actually superior to any other part, and which we should tour next Sunday, being so close. And welcome to new runner Jackie!
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