Cornell University is here and it is one of the Ivy League schools. I am visiting all of the Ivy League schools. A few days after this school visit I would visit Columbia University. That leaves only Penn in Philadelphia.

Also, one of my favorite people, Carl Sagan, taught at Cornell. So extra reason to be here. I expected to find some statue of him or a building named after him.

Typical eastern college town of streets winding every-which-a-way and up and down hills and hundreds students just walking wherever they want without regard to the traffic around them. I gotta wonder how many of students at such campuses get hit by cars each year.

I was thinking of taking a close look at Ithaca while there as a possible retirement town. College town. Beautiful setting right on one of the Finger Lakes. But then I looked at their climate. The place (as does most of the state of New York, in fact, all states bordering one of the Great Lakes) gets over three times the snowfall per year that I am used to here in the Midwest. In fact, if one looks at the top 100 places in the US that get the most annual snowfall, almost all of the top 12 are in New York state. Nevermind!