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+Just home from West Virginia, where my wife's family gather at her 
+grandmother's house to celebrate Thanksgiving.  The traditional turkey feast 
+was pleasant as always, but the real culinary high point of this trip was on
+the way home...
+
+The closest major airport is Pittsburgh, we had a couple of extra hours on
+Saturday before our flight, and Karen and I are both graduates of 
+<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/">CMU</a>.  So
+we decided to detour into Pittsburgh and and drive around a bit to see how 
+things had changed over the years and what was still familiar.
+
+The biggest visible differences to us were on the river fronts, from 
+the new stadium that replaced Three Rivers to what looks like a technology 
+park built along the Monongahela under the parkway, where steel mills 
+once stood.  We didn't take time to do more than drive around the CMU 
+perimeter, but even that let us see that the campus landscape has changed
+dramatically since we were students.  Otherwise, most of the major landmarks
+that matter to us remain unchanged, including the apartment on South Millvale
+I lived in for all but my freshman years at CMU.
+
+But best of all, 
+'<a href="http://www.hollyeats.com/OriginalHotDog.htm">the O</a>' 
+was still alive and well on Forbes avenue!  I'm sure I ate there an average
+of at least once a week from the time Steve Fisher introduced me to the place
+until I moved to Colorado.  I often tell people that the best part of having
+to travel a lot for work is that I get to sample interesting foods from around
+the world... and many of my strongest travel memories are of meals enjoyed 
+with interesting people and wonderful food.  However, despite all those
+experiences, 'O' fries continue to rank near the very top of my list of foods
+I'm willing to go out of my way for.  Even my 5-year-old son, who can be a lot
+pickier about what he'll eat than I like to admit, thanked me repeatedly 
+on the flights home the rest of the afternoon for "making me try those french 
+fries with cheese".  
+
+Sometime, I'd love to spend enough time in Pittsburgh to see how many of the 
+other places I used to love to eat are still around...  In the meantime, a
+regular fix of chili dogs and fries at the 'O' are one of the few things I
+really miss about the years I spent in Pittsburgh.
+
+[[!tag tags/travel]]