Greenwich - a night at Hotel Berrick

It was a scary 6:30am when we left Boston and hit the freeway for Middletown, Connecticut - home to Wesleyan University. We had intended to drive by Brown College in Providence, Rhode Island but that would have involved a 5:00am start and......although Harley's education is important.....it's not that important !!

Wesleyan has a great campus which is home to 2,700 undergraduate students. It has buildings scattered either side of Wyllys Avenue in Middletown (which in itself is a dump) and the facilities (especially sports) are very impressive. Also, Wesleyan has a 20% acceptance rate which is far higher than some of the Ivy leagues which are closer to 7%.

Having once again skipped lunch, we arrived at 1:00pm in New Haven to visit Yale College which couldn't be more different to any of the others. Yale is much closer to the Oxford University experience since all students are divided into "residential colleges" - similar to the Oxford / Cambridge college system but Yale's colleges only relate to living quarters rather than course / subject work.

It's is difficult not to be impressed by Yale as a university - the facilities and heritage are second to none - and it was started by Elihu Yale - an Englishman (okay, so he was actually Welsh..) Apparently, the Yale alumni are relieved to be known as Yalies since one of the other main initial donors was Jeremiah Dummer and the college came close to being called "Dummer" in which case the alumni would have been known as "Dummies"...anyway, it'll definitely be on Harley's list...

This evening we drove further south to stay with our close friends Louis & Fran Berrick who used to live next door to us in London and now live in a beautiful house in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was very strange to see them after such a long journey; it was also strange after almost three weeks on the road, and after staying in thirteen different hotels, to sleep in a bedroom without numbers on the door...

Tomorrow, we're off to our final stop on the roadtrip - New York City - the boys can't wait !!

L / R - Brandon, Cody, Elizabeth, Fran, Hannah, Louis, me & Harley