After having a dinner with my buddy’s son who are attending Cornell, we had to leave to east to finish the last major driving of this trip ๐ There has been lot of questions and debates on which route is better for anyone who needs to go east from Ithaca whether to go with I-81/I-90 via Syracuse after shorter local roads or I-88 after longer drive of local roads – The main point of discussions were the safety -especially at night- and road conditions as two route only have 15-30min difference.
After quick thought, I decided to take I-88 with the idea that it will be okay if I can reach I-88 before the sunset ๐ and it was a success although the local roads were slightly slippery and had New York State Patrol following me for any opportunity(?) for speeding at local roads ๐
Anyhow I ended up enjoying the drive in dark in the middle of nowhere/mountains in I-88, and successfully merged into I-90/Thruway at Albany and continued to east via NY Thruway and Mass Pike which was full force construction mode ๐ -maybe 1/3 of Mass Pike drive was on reduced lanes due to midnight constructions.
The main reason we drove west to Syracuse was to check out Cornell at Ithaca which is 1 hour away from Syracuse ๐ Cornell was beautiful and classy as I imagined and I truly like the school sitting on a beautiful campus structure (I hate the statement, which NYU always uses, that the City is the campus … ๐ )
Also, as a not-well-prepared MBA applicant in 20 years ago, Cornell’s Johnson was my realistic & humble target school when I was preparing my MBA at then and it has remained as my mental debt that I didn’t choose to enroll after admitted. So this trip is my gentle payback after 20 years ๐ – although I think I somewhat paid back to Cornell with A’s admission result this year ๐
The true gem experience was checking out CALS Dairy Bar at CALS building in hot summer – one of the best ice creams I had in recent years ๐
Anyhow – it was a great and very informative visit and I wish Cornell’s path and my family’s path might cross again! Although I consider myself still a man of Blue blood, go Big Red!
After losing soul during the rides and getting sun-burnt on all arms and faces, drove to northwest to Syracuse, NY. (and believe paid countless tolls in Mass Spike and NY Thruway ๐ )
Happen to find Dave’s hot chicken and it was great although it taught me the lesson that hot chicken without Korean sauce is an insult to hot chicken ๐
The Skyler hotel in Syracuse was a kind of experience of 1800’s old building renovated to hotel ๐ very comfortable hotel except cracking sounds from the floor ๐
I didn’t follow this year’s world series actively as the bracket to World Series was too obvious (and Mariners missed it r.i.d.i.c.u.l.o.u.s.l.y….) but last game proved all the ingredients of closing the series – OMG bonehead errors, player turning into crazy mode with autumn, and all pitching rotation is ignored to win ๐
์ผ๋ง์ ๋ Amazon์์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ Brazil ์๋๋ก Italian ๋ก์คํ ์ ํ New York์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ๋๋ Coffee ใ ใ ใ ๋ญ ์ ์ ํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ($0.6/Once)๋ผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํด๋ดค๋๋ฐ ๋ง๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์… ์ผ๋ New York ์๊ฐ์ Brazil, Italian์ฌ๋ ํฌํจํด์ ์ผํ๋๊น coffee๋ ์ผ์นํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค… ๐
Good find at Amazon – I guess I am drinking Brazil raised coffee with Italian roasting from New York so perfectly reflecting the time zone & ways I work ๐
And as a final driving leg of this trip we passed thru the Thruway to get to Newark after getting shocked with paid parking at Woodbury outlet mall ๐