Road Trip

Day 355 (December 21, 2014) – Somewhere in Pennsylvania

I’m driving across the country to LA with my younger brother. He is chasing a dream and I’m along for the ride to snap a few pics.

Steel City

Day 279 (October 7, 2014) – Pittsburgh, PA

When you build the headquarters for the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) naturally you use….aluminum! Yea…that’s right the ALCOA building in Pittsburgh features an aluminum exterior…and a really funky radiant heat and cooling system. This is me geeking out about architecture. 🙂 The other cool thing about this building is…that each window rotates 360 degrees so that can cleaned from the inside!! Note to self….I need to explore Pittsburgh’s architecture. This city is way more than Super Bowl trophies and overstuffed sandwiches. (By the way if you are counting…we have 6 Super Bowl wins! GO STEELERS!!!!!)

 

 

L – O – V – E

Day 131 (May 11, 2014) – Philadelphia, PA

I’m in the city of “Brotherly Love”…..and I’m not really feeling the love. It’s Mother’s Day and some people are walking around with a chip on their shoulders.  I’m talking about that look you get when people instantly detect you’re not from there. And where is there? Philadelphia, aka Philly, aka Illadelph. You know that blue collar working man’s city with a little grit and a lot of grime. That gritty city that is forever the underdog. I’m talking Rocky Balboa and the hapless Eagles. The City of Brotherly Love? HA! A lot of other cities do the whole tagline / moniker thing a lot better. Las Vegas – Sin City – now that’s perfect. How about Salem, MA – The City of Witches! Now is that fitting. Or, Brew City….guess what city that is? If you guess Milwaukee, WI….. you one a prize! Ok.. you don’t get anything but the pleasure of reading this blog and looking at a pretty picture. 🙂 But that’s the gift that keeps on giving!

So…Philly….”Brotherly Love”…na…. I don’t see it. Should be the Land of the Pretzel. Or the Home of the Champ. Something like that. ? Φιλαδέλφεια = brotherly love (trust me, I googled it!). It’s Greek. And that’s where this nickname comes from. I still hate it! Or maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if people just showed me a little love today!