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
์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
The truth requires no translation. This movie has been in my wish list for long years and finally watched it (I think I only had a view on trailer on this one…)
Finally, the end of trip. Roundtrip flights between Seattle & Boston, 2 countries, 7 states (including 1 province), 4 hotels and 2 friend’s home with 2000 mile driving – all over ๐
Maybe the most entertaining tour bus – riding on a bus, facing the side, and interactive with the performers on the street (and sometimes regular street people)