22/2/13 – Visit to Dartmouth College

This morning we packed a bag for a few days in the snow at Dartmouth, an ‘Ivy League’ College four hours north of NYC. We picked up the bus at the Yale Club after lunch at Grand Central Terminal and sat in comfort as we watched the countryside transform from NYC ‘skyscrapers’ to the sprawling suburbia of the outer boroughs and then to some fairly run down rural areas before fields of snow began to appear.

We arrived in Dartmouth at 5pm to be greeted by Dirk Vanderwalle and his friend George. Dirk, who is an expert on Libya and is a Professor at Dartmouth, and his wife Hua own the flat we are staying in in NYC.

We had dinner at the Korean Restaurant in Main Street and then finished the night with a cleansing Belgian beer at the Canoe Club. By the time we left it was snowing and the huge flakes softly floated to earth and then disappeared.