Pittsburgh

[Rich k]

OMG!! the freaking hills!!!.... they are huge and steep and go on forever, and well just look at the bones, ok seriously they are pretty gnarly. I really think that in a few cases some drunk bastard painted a double yellow on a brick wall and put a street sign next to it) Is it just me? So I guess i'm used to driving relatively flat roads and shortshifting because with me and the fiance and our luggage and christmas presents and such in the yaris it just ran outa everything resembling forward motion on a hill and stalled in 2nd. Now i only had like 3 hrs sleep and had been driving for 10 hours at that point and am out of practice on hills so its driver error and not nearly a complaint about the car, which i love, or about pittsburgh which i really like, though it shocked the hec out of me. I can't even imagine san fransisco. Ugh the stuff of nightmares. P.S. I can start uphill from a stop with little to no backward roll, though who here is with me that those gps nav system things should have a flattest route option just for those days when you haven't had enough coffee or sleep and don't want to deal with hills?