Tuesday, February 24, 2009

tunnels

I have never lived in a town with tunnels. In fact, I have been through maybe a handful over the course of my 28 years. Well that was until now. Pittsburgh has a TON of them! In fact, they date back to the 1830s! There is this cool mountain named Mount Washington, which we live on. To get on the other side of the mountain, where we work, we drive through tunnels, everyday. Here are some pictures of the Liberty Tunnel and Fort Pitt Tunnel.

The Liberty Tunnel is 5,889 ft in length! It takes us 1 minute and 45 seconds to drive through!


Its so weird to not be able to see the other side. I also hate to think about how much land is weighing down on top of it.

This is us driving through the Fort Pitt Tunnel this morning.

I am learning to love the little things like this here in Pittsburgh!

1 comment:

Lindsey said...

that is really interesting! i am so glad you are sharing stuff like this so that we can know about what y'all are doing/experiencing up there. we MISS you.