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Within ten minutes of driving out of New York City we hit what I think represents the majority of the east coast of North America, green green green trees. It’s amazing just how green it is, especially coming from the west coast of North America which was dusty and rocky. I guess you could compare to south-east Australia to north-east Australia, but I haven’t seen much this green in Australia.

I had a little bit of forethought this morning and grabbed a map/guide to Syracuse at the wireless in Starbucks and to make things easier I thought I’d print it out. So I headed a few blocks away (one of the cool things of NY City, everything is close) and found a Kinko’s. After much head bashing and throwing stuff around, I managed to print out two pieces of paper for $1USD. In the end I gave up trying to print from my laptop to the internet and back to the Kinko’s, instead I copied a PDF of what I wanted printed onto a small usb stick that I keep in my wallet. It’s an 256mb Intelligent Stick 2.0, which admittadly pretty freaking small. So small in fact that the Kinko’s guy wouldn’t believe me it was a USB stick until I plugged it into my own powerbook. Anyhow, after all that mucking about I managed to leave the map on a table in Kinko’s (I did picked it up later).

We made it to Syracuse okay with the new Dodge Caravan. It’s little bit larger then our pervious Chevy, though it does have a nasty ding in the back of it that has people shaking heads when we drive by. When we did make it Syracuse it wasn’t all smooth; Dan had to come out and meet us to direct us back to his house. Without a local map, it’s kinda hard to navigate such a sparse town. In fact Syracuse is more of a bunch of small towns strung together with lots of open space, a much needed change from the hustle and bustle of NY City.

All in all, a nice easy day of travelling – time for some rest and for another trip tomorrow out to Daniel’s in-laws boathouse!