From 1ac84de161ccce08d77cc1696d18e073ded5a0e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:01:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] post --- bdale/blog/posts/A_Culinary_Pilgrimage.mdwn | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bdale/blog/posts/A_Culinary_Pilgrimage.mdwn diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/A_Culinary_Pilgrimage.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/A_Culinary_Pilgrimage.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef0db9e --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/A_Culinary_Pilgrimage.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +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 +CMU. 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, +'the O' +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]] -- 2.30.2