Day eleven - Colgate

After over a week in beautiful Ithaca, we finally, and sadly, said goodbye today for our next stop on the tour. We are staying in New York state for a few more days, and our journey involved a two hour drive to Hamilton for our stay at Colgate University. Despite the weather having turned (we were bizarrely lucky last week in Ithaca, with lots of sun, and temperatures reaching 30 degrees on Friday), the drive was pretty beautiful with the famous colour of New York states fall showing through. We had lunch with Scott who had kindly driven us from Ithaca, and after checking into our hotel, we were picked up by John, our Colgate host and taken for a quick look around the Campus. Colgate was was recently listed as the most beautiful campus in the country, and it certainly was impressive, particular against the backdrop of New York state in the fall.

After another excellent meal we joined the Colgate debate team for their weekly meeting, where we participated in a practice debate on funding abortions. The day ended well, with the wonderful hospitality of Colgate being continued by students of the debate society, who took us to a pub in Hamilton. We also saw deer on our walk back to the hotel!

On an aside, today was also an exciting day as it was the day our blog reached 1000 hits! Thank you to all our loyal followers!

(photo: Colgate campus)