Woke up this morning to find 41 mails in my inbox. I hate the start of the school year.
Spent most of the morning...well, OK, I spent the morning sleeping, because it was raining. By the early afternoon, the rain had stopped, and it was time to see the sights in Ithaca that I didn't get to see the last time around because it was raining too hard. There are several waterfalls around Ithaca that had previously been suggested to me as good things to check out. June generously offered to show me two of them - Buttermilk Falls and Taughannock Falls. I swear I had pictures of Buttermilk, but they've vanished from my camera, so moving right along...
When you park at Taughannock Falls, this is the view you first get:
Pretty. Turns out, though, that's not the actual falls. About 20 or 30 minutes down a trail gets you a view of the real thing, which is quite a bit more impressive:
(June clearly wasn't taking the view too seriously.)
After the falls, it was time to head out to State College, about a 3 hour drive to the south. Protip - US 15 south through the middle of Pennsylvania is a really great drive - it cuts through the mountains, so there's great scenery; it's a 4-lane divided highway, so you can actually watch some of the scenery and not spend all your time staring down oncoming traffic; and there isn't that much traffic, either.
On arriving in State College, I checked into a hotel and promptly headed out to get dinner and a tour of Penn State with my cousin Adeeb. Interesting facts: football is such a big deal at Penn State that students form a tent city named "Paternoville" outside the student section entrance gates so they can camp out from Monday to Saturday to get the seats closest to the field. There's also a famous photo-op spot with a statue of a Nittany lion (it's actually a real animal, a type of mountain lion):
I really need to remember to take a real camera out with me, and not just my phone.
Tomorrow(well, today, given that I'm posting in the morning): State College, PA to Philadelphia, PA
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