Monday and home

Arrived in Columbus on Sunday evening...our hotel. the Blackwell, is right on the Ohio State campus where a few hours earlier President Obama had given the commencement address...

We strolled to dinner at Eddie George's 27 (he's a local sports hero) and walked back to the hotel through the (very large) university campus.

Tuesday morning we headed out at about 6:30 on the final leg of our journey.

Breakfast at yet another Cracker Barrel, a couple of service/rest stops (where Elsie got some Funyons)...

Another interminable drive thru PA...the names of the 4 mountains that the PA Turnpike tunnels thru: Blue, Kittatinny, Tuscarora and Allegheny...

Finally reached NJ and a distant glimpse of the NYC skyline...

On to the (blessedly traffic-free) George Washington Bridge...

Back to Riverdale for me and a hopefully speedy drive to Brooklyn to end the trip...