11/06/10

reporting on the 15th

I am getting a little behind on my posts I'm afraid, but everything is okay and will be completed in due course. I am currently on the plane above the Atlantic ocean just off the coast of Cornwall, practically home.

Back to the 11th. We had a bit of a lie in as we really didn't have all that far to go for the next day or so before we handed in our beloved van. In the morning we visited Rutgers: the University of New Jersey. To be more accurate I went for a wander round the Busch campus whilst G0N started getting his things together. I have to say that after the preposterously awesome campuses of Stanford and Berkeley, Rutgers was somewhat underwhelming. The campus was quite nice; spread out, green, big physics building, but really wasn't as polished as the other US universities that I have visited, or Warwick for that matter. The surrounding town of New Brunswick really isn't anything to write home about either, so a valuable visit as these are not the experiences that you can get off Wikipedia.

Following the Rutgers experience, I joined G0N in packing up my stuff and cleaning out some of the crap from the van before tracking down a car wash. We went to this place down the road from where we hired the van and to be brutally honest the people were pretty surly and the cleaning job was not all that great, but good enough not to be of an issue when giving the van back. We then took our nice clean van to a nearish Wal-Mart to finish off out tidying and packing so that we could get moving quickly in the morning. In the evening we had our first steak of the trip at Applebees, another of the big chains that we could tick off our list. The steak was pretty good and pretty cheap, so a bit of a win :)

Cube out