Spent the night at a Hampton Inn in Media, PA, a short hop from Swarthmore College, stop 1 of this round of college tours. We will be escorted around by Natalie's friend Susannah, a rising senior. Later we hit Haverford, where our guide will be Gus Stadler of the English Department, famed scholar of Woody Guthrie and my freshman year roommate from Yale. The day ends up in Easton, PA, where we'll see Lafayette in the morning.
Media is a sweet little suburb, not super upscale like the Main Line but plenty nice. The light rail goes straight though town and has stops, improbably, every two blocks or so. Had dinner outdoors at a brew pub on Main Street, across the parking lot from a Trader Joe's that had been carved out of some old stone structure. As we walked back to our car we saw that a pizza place trumpeted that it had won an award for best pizza in Philly in 1982, 1984, and 1993. We were sad to have missed it, though that's sort of like UCLA basketball.
Unfortunately we're not supposed to step on campus at Haverford till 5 so we'll have to kill a day in Philly, so we may look at Penn, though I have it very hard to see Graham going there and swimming with all those sharks. Mostly I think we'll try to lolligag through the day to the best of our ability, searching out shady spots. Though maybe we'll go check out the Liberty Bell etc.
In the background bullshit persists on the question of the playground back in Chapel Hill, as the former Board Chair and current Board Nemesis has sent an email saying he is talking to lawyers blah blah blah. I am trying to ignore that nonsense to the best of my ability.
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