We made it.....just over 4,000 miles and here we are being photographed in front of the Atlantic Ocean when, just over two weeks ago, we drove off leaving behind the Pacific....
Our day started at the "Sheraton Ghost Hotel" in Springfield - the 350 room hotel with no guests (except us). In fact, when we left our room this morning, we found that someone had mysteriously removed all the carpeting on our floor and strange carpet rolls had appeared in the corridor - very weird !! Having eaten one of the worst breakfasts so far, we set off for Amherst College, just north of Springfield, Massachusetts. It's a very small university (only 1,7000 students which is very small) and classifies itself as a "liberal arts college" which means that a strong emphasis is placed on alternative academics such as humanities and philosophy - it's quite common amongst private schools in the US. 
The campus is beautiful and Amherst itself is very nice - it may not be quite right for Harley but we still have a lot of other campuses to see.
From there, we drove the final 100 miles to Boston and the east coast proper (with "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen playing on the car radio). There's a definite difference between driving in the east coast states - other drivers (and the traffic cops) are much more intense and aggressive....we'll wait and see how everything else measures up...
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