Pittsburgh 'n' At

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Since I seem to have a large contingent of yinzers in my flist, I’ll post this brief writeup of last week’s PIT trip.

Since food seems to be the majority of what PIT is good for, here’s the run-down.

• India Garden on Atwood: been there three times now, and still feel they’re passable, but nothing special.
• Mad Mex on Atwood: very tasty enchiladas, but they fought with my internals. Went at 3pm and so avoided the raucus college crowd.
• Pamela’s on Forbes: as always, very good but insanely greasy and too much food.
• Green Mango on Braddock: not bad. New Thai place. Grabbed a fistful of Thailand tourism pamphlets for future reference.
• Klavon’s Ice Cream on Penn: odd retro place with eerily friendly staff, but an awesome Pecan Ball with caramel. I’d do that again!
• Oh Yeah on Highland: okay ice cream place. Somehow both reminiscent of JP Licks and yet nothing special.
• Mario’s South Side Saloon on E Carson: very good burger, for a second choice after the Fat Head had a 45-minute wait at 3pm.

Other activities included: a very profitable trip to Papermart on Baum, where everything (including red mini-Sharpies and big glass markers) was seventy percent off due to the store closing; a damned cold walking photography expedition from Heinz Field, around the Point, up to the Seventh Street Bridge and back down past PNC Park (full photoset here); sharing my Scotland photos and travel info with Inna’s mean friend Monika; meeting Inna’s new cats Pumpkin and Prawn; and just generally driving around and getting a better idea of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods and what they’re like.

Took JetLoo for the first time; seemed no different from any other airline, except the ground crew were a lot more potty-mouthed (pun intended) than on Merkun, Untied Airlines, or USHair.

Wasn’t a bad trip. It was nice to have a reason to break the camera out, even if it was really too cold to do a lot of work with it.