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Day 47: Perry North/South

April 8, 2019September 5, 2019, Perry North Perry South
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  • Day 1: Windgap
  • Day 2: Brookline
  • Day 3: East Allegheny/Fineview Walk
  • Day 4: Allentown/Knoxville Walk
  • Day 5: East Liberty/Shadyside
  • Day 6: Mount Washington/Duquesne Heights
  • Day 7: Regent Square Walk
  • Day 8: Polish Hill
  • Day 9: Esplen
  • Day 10: Brighton Heights/Woods Run
  • Day 11: Brighton Heights
  • Day 12: Middle Hill/Bedford Dwellings
  • Day 13: North Shore/Allegheny Center/East Allegheny
  • Day 14: South Side Flats
  • Day 15: Crafton Heights
  • Day 16: Beechview
  • Day 17: Squirrel Hill
  • Day 18: Highland Park
  • Day 19: Greenfield
  • Day 20: Garfield/East Liberty
  • Day 21: East Liberty/Larimer
  • Day 22: Troy Hill
  • Day 23: Central Lawrenceville
  • Day 24: Elliott
  • Day 25: Central Northside/Mexican War Streets
  • Day 26: South Oakland
  • Day 27: Spring Hill-City View
  • Day 28: Perry North
  • Day 29: Westwood & East Carnegie
  • Day 30: Fineview
  • Day 31: Chateau/Manchester
  • Day 32: South Side Flats
  • Day 33: Hazelwood
  • Day 34: Perry North/Brighton Heights (1000th Street!)
  • Day 35: Lawrenceville/Stanton Heights
  • Day 36: Morningside/Highland Park
  • Day 37: Lower Lawrenceville/Bloomfield
  • Day 38: Squirrel Hill South and Point Breeze
  • Day 39: Brighton Heights
  • Day 40: Stanton Heights
  • Day 41: Brookline
  • Day 42: Mount Oliver and St. Clair
  • Day 43: Knoxville and Bon Air
  • Day 44: South Side Slopes
  • Day 45: Bloomfield and Friendship
  • Day 46: Banksville
  • Day 47: Perry North/South
  • Day 48: Point Breeze/Squirrel Hill North
  • Day 49: Duquesne Heights
  • Day 50: Downtown
  • Day 51: West Oakland/Terrace Village/Uptown/Crawford-Roberts
  • Day 52: Greenfield/Four Mile Run
  • Day 53: South Side Flats/Slopes & Arlington/Heights
  • 54: Brookline
  • 55: Sheraden & Windgap
  • 56: Oakland (Central, West, North)
  • 57: Washington’s Landing (Troy Hill)
  • 58: South Shore, North Shore, Golden Triangle
  • 59: Overbrook & Carrick
  • 60: Shadyside & Bloomfield
  • 61: Manchester, California-Kirkbride & Marshall-Shadeland
  • 62: Strip District, Polish Hill and a teeny tiny part of Lower Lawrenceville
  • 63: West End & Elliott
  • 64: Morningside, Stanton Heights & Highland Park
  • 65: South Shore, The Bluff, Crawford-Roberts, SS Flats
  • 66: Duquesne Heights, Beechview & Mt. Washington
  • 67: Upper Hill, North Oakland, Terrace Village, Middle Hill & Bedford Dwellings
  • 67: Troy Hill, Spring Garden, Northview Heights, Spring Hill-City View, and East Allegheny
  • 68: Beechview & Mount Washington
  • 69: Spring Garden, Spring Hill-City View & East Allegheny
  • 70: Carrick
  • 71: Too many neighborhoods to count or the one where I start naming blog posts
  • 72: All Creatures, Fake and Real
  • 73: I’m glad we didn’t end up on the news
  • 74: Third Time’s a Charm
  • 75: A tree tried to murder me and I almost killed Amy. Again.
  • 76: Little Walk on the Urban Prairie
  • 77: Closed Roads and Old Mines/Mills
  • 78: Big Dog, Big Jim’s, Big Rain
  • 79: RING! RING! Go Alarms and Phones. (East End)
  • 80: cARTwheels
  • 81: Treasure and Gator Hunting (Carrick)
  • 82: All the Small Things. Don’t even Blink.
  • 83: I’m sorry for what I said when I was hungry.
  • 84: Let’s Make a Dill, or Two.
  • 85: Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.
  • 86: Runnin’ out of these streets
  • 87: Banksville Twofer
  • 88: Pokemon to the rescue!
  • 89: Is this a Wonkavator?
  • 90: Golden Girls and Gators
  • 91: Fruit of Plenty
  • 92: It’s in the Stars
  • 93: Shopping Carts in the Wild!
  • 94: Mixed Messages (Beechview)
  • 95: Snakes, Sloths, and Sticky Burs (Northside)
  • 96: Spider Webs, Kitty Hair, & Salt
  • 97: Say it, don’t spray it. (Mt. Washington/Allentown)
  • 98: Dickens has Chickens (West End, Elliott, Crafton Heights)
  • 99: Buggies, Toilets, and Beeping (East Liberty, Larimer, Lincoln-Lemington)
  • 100th Post! (Squirrel Hill North/South)
  • 101: The world is moving on (Terrace Village/Crawford-Roberts)

|Unique Streets Walked: 44

|Miles Walked: 4.71

|Street Names (italicized streets have been walked on another day): Millroy, Bothwell, Tretow, Catoctin, Viola, Watson, Talco, Venture, Perrysville, Chemung, Delaware, Orleans, Portola, Wayland, Sigma, Longfellow, Marshall, Norwood, Mount Allister, Glenridge, Oak Park, Harrow, Newland, Kilbuck, Kennedy, Leroy/Keokuk, Searles, Ellis, Mayfield, Quartz, Leland, Hawkins, Shelton, N Charles, Canter, Legion, Ellzey, Pusey, Veteran, Maple Avenue, Goshen, Sherlock, Daisy, Sonora, E Marshall

Today I returned to the land of the living after a sickness that rivaled Captain Trips from The Stand. Last time I went walking was Tuesday, April 2nd so on top of feeling like a bag of flaming crap, I felt guilty for not getting out there. My three-year-old was the source of the sickness so I had him to thank and take care of as well as myself.

notice his snot sleeve. yuck.

It turned out that while I felt a lot better than I had for the last week, I was not 100% and probably shouldn’t have walked almost 5 miles today. Pardon me if any of my sentences don’t make sense. More on that later.

I was joined by my friend Amy and we set off towards the Perry North section of the city. We parked on Millroy which is one of the first streets you can hit if you’re coming from 279. Immediately, we saw a set of stairs and were planning on walking up them when we saw that Bothwell Street curved up the hill. When we saw a couple of turkeys hanging out in a side yard, we decided to take the forested route.

We saw the first two of many deer we would see on the corner of Viola and Catoctin.

We walked on Watson Boulevard and saw many grand houses.

We also saw a set of stairs named Sigma Way that didn’t appear on Apple or Google Maps but did appear on the Hopkins Maps.

There also appeared to be more streets in this area in 1923 than there are now.

As we walked we would smell blossoms before we saw them. Many flowering trees and bushes were at the apex of their bloom with little or no petals yet on the ground.

It was marvelous. We walked many cobblestone alleys and noticed some interesting backyard ornaments.

WHAT
Hai, sir.

We saw an eccentric house of which every inch was artistically altered.

The grey sign says: “Don’t Piss off the Fairies.”

We could see the Observatory around almost every turn as we skirted the edge of Riverview Park. We crossed over Marshall Road and entered Perry South, a neighborhood that had streets no map creator cared to correctly identify.

We walked on a Leroy/Keokuk Way that was littered with trash and signs that said there was a $10,000 fine for dumping.

TV Dinner, anyone?

We found a “street” called Quartz Way.

Don’t even THINK about Parking Here.

We tried to walk on the Daisy Street Stairs that the map said would be there, but Google lied. Again. We talked about how much money I would have if I got paid every time I found a map mistake.

All around spring was apparent.

I think someone flower bombed this yard.

We got closer to the car when I noticed some squiggly lines in my vision much like what you see after someone takes your picture with a flash camera. I tired to shrug it off but more symptoms of my migraine onslaught appeared: I was unable to read the words on the map. I couldn’t form sentences. I rarely get migraines anymore (thankfully) and luckily the aura is usually the worst part. It lasts about 20-30 minutes and then a dull headache sets in for the rest of the day (or two days.) We got some lunch (hunger can be a trigger) and I took some Imitrex and a nap. I am writing this with a migraine hangover so like I mentioned above, please forgive me if some of the words are out of order.

Maybe I pushed myself too hard, maybe I was hungry, maybe it was all of the strong spring smells I could finally smell after a week of congestion. I’m not sure. I do know that I am going to bed.

If you want to see what a migraine aura looks like, check out this video (I didn’t embed it because if you’ve had one, you don’t want to see it.)

Relive ‘Perry North Walk!’

Check out all of my pictures from this walk on Google Photos.

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Tagged deer, friend, garbage, spring, stairs, turkey
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