{"id":620,"date":"2009-09-10T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/620"},"modified":"2009-09-10T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:26:49","slug":"the-sojourn-in-pictures-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/620","title":{"rendered":"The Sojourn in Pictures: Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 15 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/category\/summer-sojourn-2009\">Sojourn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/615\">Ohio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this highlights the problem with putting gubernatorial names on state entry signs:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PNC Park!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had amazing seats &#8211; the closest I&#8217;ve ever been to a major league field &#8211; for not much dough&#8230; I guess it helps to set a record for consecutive losing seasons:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pirate!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pirates may be the only major league team with two mascots.  Some teams don&#8217;t even have one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool out-of-town-scoreboard with game situations:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony LaRussa!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Duquesne Incline &#8211; the best little city attraction you&#8217;ve never heard of:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First one comes up in the red incline car:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then looks at the amazing view from the top:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then starts on the descent:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the bottom after going up and back:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture fails to capture the epic size of the diplodocus pictured:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Storey with stego:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Em with triceratops:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Em contemplates what it would be like to encounter this giant sea turtle in the wild:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Return to the fabled cafeteria at Dickinson College &#8211; it hasn&#8217;t changed a bit:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The emergency exit door I shattered with a baseball at CTY and had to pay to replace:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hershey&#8217;s Chocolate World, where I asked to Em&#8217;s embarrassment why they didn&#8217;t have M&amp;M cookies:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the tour are these singing animatronic cows, espousing the virtues of <strong>MILK!<\/strong> chocolate:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA21.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The real factory (no admittance):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Philly at night:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waffle House in NE PA:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s largest crayon or fake plastic filler?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cozy day of reading in Ariel &amp; Mike&#8217;s new place:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournPA26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And last: New Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 15 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Tuesday: Ohio I think this highlights the problem with putting gubernatorial names on state entry signs: PNC Park! We had amazing seats &#8211; the closest I&#8217;ve ever been to a major league field &#8211; for not much dough&#8230; I guess it helps to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,31],"tags":[5,67,71],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-summer-sojourn-2009","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-summer-sojourn-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}