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Early in the morning Ingrid and I left for Pittsburgh, about a 3 hrs drive. We found a parking lot right outside of the Andy Warhol Museum, http://www.warhol.org/.

Andy Warhol had the perfect feeling for what was going on and made things just enough shocking to get publicity, he was a great marketer. The museum had a lot of information about him and his development and I liked him and his work much more when I left than when I came.

We took a walk through a bit strange neighborhood to the other museum we wanted to see, the Mattress Factory, http://www.mattress.org/. After some Mexican food we had the energy for the three houses filled with installations and modern art.

Pittsburgh seems to be a nice town and the Mexican war streets held lots of beautiful but old and sometimes dilapidated houses. Murals and a garden tries to improve the neighbourhood and, it seems, with some luck. We also passed RandyLand but didn’t have the time to stay and make a Facebook-movie on how we would print “Välkommen” in Swedish on his door, http://randy.land/. Randy Gilson was fully occupied with making a movie about the Hungarian “welcome” and we quietly went out the gate.

We tried to get down where the two rivers meet in Pittsburgh but there was a One Direction concert in the evening and I think the whole world was trying to park downtown Pittsburgh. We did one round and then gave up and went to our pre-booked hotel by the airport.

Due to the early morning, the long drive, the many things we saw and the driving in an unknown city I passed out and it became a very early night.