Day 5: Rest Day - Pittsburgh, PA

Nau maiYesterday we spent the day in Pittsburgh recovering and drying out. We had driven through the night aboard our bus, Huckleberry. She is a proud bus, old but stout, wearing chrome skirts and a very dignified coat of midnight blue paint. She had crossed the states of Indiana and Ohio and delivered us safely to western Pennsylvania, to a large carpark behind the Hampton Inn & Suites, Pittsburgh Downtown. The rain had followed us to Pittsburgh but thankfully we didn’t have to deal with more mud. Sneakers were scrubbed clean in the hotel bathroom and the hairdryer was put to work getting them back to a wearable state.We had lost an hour to the timezone change and I woke up at 2:30pm after a night of successive twenty minute naps. I headed out with Callum and Annabel for an afternoon breakfast date at Primanti Bros., a sandwich shop of some repute. As we took our seats the boisterous Italian-American proprietor was serving a huge blue cocktail with a tiny rubber duck bobbing in the…