First day in Pittsburgh

To all you people who hate on Pittsburgh: don't.

This is like a hipster working class city; cool and down to earth. I met the most amazing people here, Adam and Rachel, who took me out to see the Strip District and made me eat the messiest sandwiches I ever had - saying that it was Pittsburgh tradition to eat them and I hadn't really bee here if I hadn't. The name of them escapes me at this time, but they involved coleslaw, french fries, kielbasa and tomatoes in one. And more than enough of it, too. It was amazing though. Amazing and messy.

Anyhow, you know that Andy Warhol is from here, right? And he hated Pittsburgh with a passion. Well, none of th guidebooks ever says where he actually lived for the first years of his life, but thankfully Adam knew and drove me there to take pictures and be generally excited about it. What can I say? It was just a house, but still so amazing (because he lived there once). Then we went to the South Side, had Margaritas (ignoring the 5pm rule) and then strolled up the street for the view of hipsters becoming sorority girls the further up we got.

Pittsburgh is great. I even consider staying for one more day already before I go to DC to catch up with my dad.

But as always I have to go now. Adam was talking about this old renovated church we had to go to (it is now a bar - I love it!) and then I want to see the city skyline at night.