Day 2: Edison, NYC, and Long Island

Day 2 of the trip brought some excitement, finally. The day started with the worst motel "continental" breakfast I have ever seen. The first stop of the day which was more of a time filler was Thomas Edison's laboratory in West Orange, NJ. I was actually pretty impressed with all of the stuff this man created that we take for granted today (ie electricity, speakers, moving pictures). Unfortunately, I forgot to take the camera out of the car so I did not get any pictures. During this tour I also met some State grads from the 90s who also went through the engineering department.

After that, and driving through about 5 miles without seeing a single caucasian, we drove through the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan. Since we did not park and get out, I only snapped a few pictures from the car. This one was on Madison Ave looking north towards Central Park.

After another business stop in the Bronx, and fighting our way through more traffic, we arrived in Hampton Bays, NY, on Long Island where we will be for a few days.

Day 1: Travel Day

As promised, here is my daily blog post on my trip to New England this summer.

Today was the first day of the trip, and included an ~10 hour drive from Salisbury to Piscataway, NJ, which is the home of Rutgers University. I slept most of the morning, but was conscious when we drove through Washington DC. Even though we didn't get out and look around the city, we did get a pretty good view of several landmarks from I-395 including the Pentagon, the Washington Monument, Capitol Hill, the Yankees-Nationals game, and the top facade of the White House. We stopped in Baltimore for some business stops and the Star Spangled Celebration was going on in downtown Baltimore. One pretty cool thing here was the famous Blue Angels flight team were in town doing an air show. A few hours later and after some traffic delays and rip-off toll roads throughout Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, we finally decided to stop here in Piscataway.

Nothing of importance happened today, but hopefully tomorrow I'll have some pictures to post up from the travels in NYC and Long Island.