AT#259 - Travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2010

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Chris Bogdon who talks to us about his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This former steel capital has undergone a renaissance since its steel business went away and Chris tells us some of the reasons to visit this city at the headwaters of the Ohio River. Pittsburgh boasts both historic Fort Pitt and nearby Fort Necessity where George Washington made a name for himself. It is the home to many different ethnic neighborhoods which it celebrates with food and festivals and commemorates in an Immigration Museum in the Carnegie Library of the University of Pittsburgh. The town now hosts students in greater numbers than steelworkers. It is near Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwaters and a wine region. Chris also talks about side trips to Bethlehem, PA and Jim Thorpe, PA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.1	in my passport photo.
0:10.7	Amateur Traveler episode 259. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about ethnic
0:17.3	neighborhoods historic forts and the King of Ketchup as we go to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
0:23.4	I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not
0:30.8	today. Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.6	into this week's interview I do have only one news story for you and that is one of
0:41.8	a hotel manager working for a Marriott who took that customer service
0:46.7	that we all look for in a hotel perhaps a little too far.
0:50.5	He helped a guest who was looking at a $49,354.55-cent hotel bill.
1:01.0	And that's a lot of mini- bar expenses to try and get away without paying for it.
1:06.0	The story, and this is something that's coming out of USA Today, doesn't say why, and I really have to wonder how you would talk a hotel manager into
1:15.2	letting you out of a $49,000 hotel bill, but the hotel manager was caught and is now facing
1:21.8	jail time.
1:23.0	So perhaps that's not the level of customer service
1:26.0	you should expect the next time you stay at a hotel.
1:29.0	For a link to that story, check out the show notes
1:31.0	at amateur traveler.com.
1:33.0	I'd like to welcome the show Chris Bogden who's coming to us from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1:39.7	and come to talk to us about his hometown. Chris, welcome to the show. Hey Chris, thanks a lot for having me.
1:45.2	And you pitched Pittsburgh to me, and Pittsburgh happens to be one of the places that I have not been to in Pennsylvania. And part of the reason I'd have to say
1:54.2	is it's old reputation for maybe 20, 30 years ago.
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