Sept. 23 Run: Coffee Tree on Walnut Street in Shadyside

We'll start at Coffee Tree on Walnut Street at ground zero of Shadyside - mainly because we haven't been there in years, if ever.  Why not give it a try?  There isn't a run planned - though the one where we fast-walked right through Shadyside Hospital might be tried again.  Do we want to run over the Bloomfield Bridge (it has a walkway on one side) for the first time?  Many possibilities!

Last week I missed the running part due to an annoying ankle sprain (am considering using a scooter, or a segway! how weird would that be?) so I have no idea how the run/walk went.  But afterwards the coffee spot at Madeleine's was simply dreamy.

Faves:

• the Cook Forest River Ride
• Ineffable Ca Phe - Vietnamese cafe - maybe start there next time?
• Stretch fabrics! 
• Ofebia Quist-Arcton and Sylvia Poggioli
• Scoobis
• IHOP, not IHOB
• the Isola neighborhood in Milan
• Gift cards to the Big Burrito restaurants
• Timbuk2 panniers for bikes

Not faves:

• People in movie theaters in pajamas eating Chinese food
• Having to teach kids what a mailbox is