Please Recommend Good Places to Climb Stairs

My house in Port Glasgow, you have to climb 355 stairs from the town centre
to my house and as a reward you get a cup of tea, Dan..

Miguel Cruz wrote:

> - Likewise any of the out-of-service escalators in the DC Metro system (of
> which there are legion). It's hard to run the working escalators because DC
> residents are among the world's most sedentary and lazy people and all stand
> (to the right AND left!). But for those of us who prefer to run, the stopped
> ones are like a private Olympic track - some of them are very long,
> apparently among the longest continuous escalators in the world.
>
I was on one of those really long DC escalators with a friend who is
squeamish about heights. She was beginning to get really panicky before
we got to the bottom. I don't know if it was the power of suggestion,
but it began to get to me, too.

Barbara

Barbara Vaughan wrote:

> Miguel Cruz wrote:
>
> > - Likewise any of the out-of-service escalators in the DC Metro system
(of
> > which there are legion). It's hard to run the working escalators because
DC
> > residents are among the world's most sedentary and lazy people and all
stand
> > (to the right AND left!). But for those of us who prefer to run, the
stopped
> > ones are like a private Olympic track - some of them are very long,
> > apparently among the longest continuous escalators in the world.
> >
> I was on one of those really long DC escalators with a friend who is
> squeamish about heights. She was beginning to get really panicky before
> we got to the bottom. I don't know if it was the power of suggestion,
> but it began to get to me, too.


The Q St. exit escalator at Dupont Circle always kinda gives me the heebie -
jeebies.....

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Best
Greg

"Dan McLean" wrote
| My house in Port Glasgow, you have to climb 355 stairs from the town
centre
| to my house and as a reward you get a cup of tea, Dan..

Do we not get a wee Empire Biscuit as well?

Owain