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Friday – The Train Stops in Pittsburgh – Happy Hour at East End Brewing

As most of you know I’ve been on a cross country train trip with the Millennial Trains Project. I am one of 24 passengers who are working on a project as the train has traveled across the country from San Francisco to Washington, DC.

Toledo, OH Amtrak Station

I’m writing this post from the train – we just passed through Toledo, Ohio. Next stop – Pittsburgh! The train pulls into the station around 5am. I’ve already set my alarm, I want to see what the city looks like from a train.

The Millennial Trains Project group will be in Pittsburgh all day and I hope you will get a chance to say hello and meet my fellow passengers.

As we left Chicago today – I realized that this trip is coming close to an end in just 2 days. But, I am excited to be stopping in Pittsburgh and have the chance to show the passengers on this train the steel city. I hope you will help me welcome everyone to the ‘burgh on Friday.

10am-4pm – Participant Projects at TechShop and around the city.

MTP passengers, staff and mentors will be at TechShop, located in Bakery Square, all day (I’ll be there 10-11 and in and out in the afternoon). Stop by and check out TechShop and say hello.

6pm-7pm – MTP Happy Hour at East End Brewing

Thanks to Scott at East End Brewing for hosting. All are welcome to stop by and check out the brewery and meet my fellow passengers. This is a short event because we have to get back on the train for some of the evening sessions.

Facebook event link for the Happy Hour – https://www.facebook.com/events/155412884660747/

Millennial Trains Project Update

THANK YOU Pittsburgh! A week ago I learned that there were 3 seats left on the waiting list for the Millennial Trains Project inaugural trip. I sent an email to the IheartPGH email list asking for help to raise the $5000 needed to get a seat on the train.

I am honored to have the support of over 90 Pittsburgh lovers. In less than 36, the Pittsburgh lovers in this city an all across the country, helped me meet the fundraising goal.

Tomorrow, yes tomorrow! I head to California and the trip starts Thursday morning.

Pittsburgh Meet-Ups from Coast to Coast

I’ve got events planned for each stop and I need your help to reach out to your fellow Pittsburghers in San Francisco, Denver, Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburgh! I am still working on locations (ideally a Steelers bar or a business owned by a Pittsburgher) for each meetup but I’m hoping to meet with and talk to as many Pittsburghers as possible.

Friday, August 8, 1-5pm –
San Francisco, CA

https://www.facebook.com/events/166816410171946/
Monday, August 12, 11am-3pm – Denver, CO https://www.facebook.com/events/406785326093678/
Tuesady, August 13, 11am-3pm – Omaha, NE https://www.facebook.com/events/577160952326032/
Thursday, August 15, 11am-3pm – Chicago, IL https://www.facebook.com/events/341129732686943/
Friday, August 16, 10am-3pm – Pittsburgh, PA https://www.facebook.com/events/308895432589794/

An Updated Map of Pittsburgh Places and Steelers Bars

You can follow the trip and help us build the biggest list of Pittsburgh places over at www.UnitedStatesofPittsburgh.com. We’ve made some major updates and you can now browse the directory by a fancy map. You can submit more locations to the map here.

Follow The Trip

I’ll be updating the United States of Pittsburgh Facebook page and Twitter @USofPGH along the way!

Ride a train. Change the world. The powerful vision of the Millennial Trains Project (treehugger.com)
All Aboard – 2 Weeks to Get Some Pittsburghers on the Millennials Train (iheartpgh.com)

New Perk – StandUp Paddleboarding in Pittsburgh

Standup Paddleboarding in Western, PA

I’ve got just 6 days to raise the money for a seat on the inaugural Millennial Trains trip. What has been most incredible is the response that I have received from the Pittsburgh community. Thanks to all of our readers who have been sharing and supporting this project.

As you can see I’ve got a ways to go to raise the rest of the $5000 for the trip.

I’ve just added a new perk to the Millennial Trains Project fundraising page – A StandUp Paddleboard tour! Have you seen some crazy folks driving around Pittsburgh with a surfboard on their car? Have you been wondering where you can use a surfboard on the three rivers?

Over the past two years, I’ve spent many an afternoon paddling the Allegheny River from a standup paddleboard. And I’ve made some new paddleboard loving friends – like Ian Smith, owner of SurfSup Adventure. Ian has generously offered to help support my project by offering a paddleboard tour as one of the perks for supporting my project.

If you contribute $80 or more to the crowd-funding page – you can join SurfSup Adventures for a standup paddleboard lesson and tour. Once we’ve successfully reached our funding goal – we’ll pick a date/time that works for those who are interested (likely a weedkday evening or weekend morning). Beginners welcome, no prior paddleboarding experience necessary.

Click here to make a contribution to my Millennial Trains Project and reserve a spot on this paddleboard tour.

Ian and I took some paddleboards to help Paddle Without Pollution with a river clean up

About SurfSup Adventure: SurfSUP Adventures is an independently owned outfitter specializing in guided Standup Paddle Boarding excursions, eco-tours, instructional workshops, SUP yoga, and board and equipment sales in the Pittsburgh area and throughout Pennsylvania. With SurfSUP, experiences are customized for individuals and groups of all ages, skill levels and desired locations. Standup Paddle Boarding, also known as SUPing, offers a unique and exhilarating new way to enjoy our local waterways. From serene lakes and gentle rivers to wild class III whitewater, SurfSUP Adventures provides an experience you will not forget.

You can learn more about the Millennial Trains Project here.

Four Awesome Pittsburgh Projects That Need Your Support

Here are three amazingly awesome crowd-funding projects by some of my favorite Pittsburghers and my current project that are looking for some crowd-funded support. I know each of these projects creators personally and I think all of these are great projects for Pittsburgh. Check out some of the great thank-you perks for supporting each projects.

http://storify.com/iheartpgh/four-awesome-pittsburgh-project-to-support

All Aboard – 2 Weeks to Get Some Pittsburghers on the Millennials Train

If you follow IheartPGH on Facebook and Twitter you may have noticed that I’ve been linking to the Millennial Trains Project.

The Millennial Trains Project is a cross country train trip this August that will start in San Francisco and end in Washington, DC. The train will stop in 10 cities over 10 days. The Millennial Trains project was founded by Patrick Dowd (not the Pittsburgh city councilman Patrick Down) who helped to organize a similar project, Jagriti Yatra, when he was a Fulbright scholar in India.

The inaugural journey of the Millennial Trains project will be stopping in Pittsburgh!

The route of the inaugural Millennial Trains Project trip

The Millennial Trains project has put together a beautiful video that describes the trip which is worth two minutes of your time and can be watched here. To get a seat on the train, passengers must create a project and use the Millennial Trains Project’s custom crowd-funding platform (kind of like Kickstarter or Indiegogo), CrowdHitch to raise $5000.

I think we need to make sure that Pittsburgh is represented on this train! I’ve created a project and I would love to see some other Pittsburgh folks create a project and get a seat on the train.

Get on board

If you are interested I would be happy to help you with your project and your application. Please drop me an email lindsay – at -IheartPGH.com

Check out my project – The United States of Pittsburgh

The United States of Pittsburgh will explore what the Pittsburgh folk who left town are doing now and we’re going to build a big bad directory of Pittsburgh businesses across the US. There are many more Pittsburgh places than those listed on Steeler Bar directories.

I’ve just added some awesome perks – I am honored to have the support of some of my favorite Pittsburghers in supporting this project.

Here are some of the “perks” I’ve put together for this project and more are on the way. If you are a local business and would like to contribute to the perks please drop me an email lindsay-at-IheartPGH.com

A Postcard from Pittsburgh – let someone know that Pittsburgh misses them.

$7 – I’ll send a Pittsburgh postcard to the person you choose

Pittsburgh Love – we’re offering a few of our favorite items, all will be printed with love by our friends at Commonwealth Press

$25 – The Heart of PA T-shirt One of our best selling t-shirts – the state of PA with a heart right in the most important location

Printing Party at Commonwealth Press

$100 – Come on down and print your own Pittsburgh gear with our friends at Commonwealth Press. We’ll provide the t-shirts and some beer. Commonwealth Press will teach you about screen printing and you’ll screen print your own t-shirts. We’ll pick a date/time that works for everyone.

Social Media Consulting – I’ve worked with both local and national business to help strategize and grow their online presence. I’d love to help you with your project and I’m offering a super discount on my usual rate to folks who support my Millennial Trains Project.