Two miles.
That’s about the distance from the Cathedral of Learning to the Tree of Life Synagogue. Just hop one of the #61 PAT buses on Forbes Avenue in Oakland and get off at Shady and Forbes in Squirrel Hill maybe 15 minutes later. Walk half-a-mile up Shady Avenue until you hit Wilkins. And there you are.
Two miles.
A very short drive.
That’s how far away I was yesterday morning.
It’s so close, yet as anyone who attended Pitt or grew up in Pittsburgh knows; it’s another place. The winding hills. Carnegie in between.