Another great day today! We are finding plenty to keep us busy here in Pittsburgh. We spent lots of time and rode many miles on our bicycles; my butt bone and back are barking!
We started by riding from where we docked for the night (on the Allegany across from Heinz Field) across the Ft Pitt Bridge and over to the Duquesne historic lift. It was pretty cool to read and see all the history of it. Some great engineering. Also excellent views of the city and the three rivers were to be had.
Back over the bridge, we stopped at "The Point" park which is also home to the historic Ft Pitt. There we toured the only remaining structure from the original fort, a stone and masonry house and read about all of the history.
Back on the bikes to crossed the Duquesne bridge and over to the West side of the Allegany and headed South. Things were starting to really get crazy with tons of boats tied up against the walls adjacent to Heinz Field were Kenny Chesney was performing later in the evning. Some new friends we met, Laura and Chuck (more about them later), reccomended going to "Bicycle Heaven", a very cool bicycle museum and shop. I had in the back of my mind that I might buy a new seat for the garage sale bike I was riding with a seat that felt like it was a brick.....no such luck finding a reasonable one. however, it was well worth the ride because the museum was very cool! It was in a huge, old, 2 story warehouse and had THOUSANDS of bikes of all shapes/sizes/eras as well as what seemed like millions of other misc. parts. Neat stop. Leaving there, we headed back North along the Allegany and up to another bridge North of three rivers a couple miles. We were actually looking for a McDonald's (seemed like a good time for caramel frappes!), when we stumbled upon "The Strip". Headed up the "Mon"(local for Monongahela) is a trendy 3 or 4 block stretch of shops and markets that had all kinds of interesting foods and fare.
We headed back to the boat for a quick rest before going to dinner with Laura(crazy zebra lady! Hahah long story) and Chuck at The Oyster House....yummy. It has been in its same location on Market St since 1870; anything in business that long has to be good and it proved to be so. After dinner we came back to boat and coasted off up the Allegany 9 miles and 1 lock to go to Fox Chapel Yacht Club where we had a slip reserved for Saturday and Sunday night. The cruise upriver offered a spectacular sunset behind us. There were A LOT of boaters heading upriver with us and we locked through with 17 other boats! Based on the music/dancing on the other boats, interesting conversations overheard, and swaying people we suspect many of them may have had a beer or 20 ;-). We arrive at Fox Chapel at about 10pm and had to search around for a bit to find the dockmaster. We could not find him so we docked up at the courtesy dock and decided to stay there for the night. Just as we were pulling the covers up on us he came knocking on our door ;-( Back up we were to transfer over to our assigned dock. Exauhsted, we went to bed.
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