Ogdensburg to Orono

We had two packed shows in Ogdensburg, New York, an evening show for the general public and a morning show for students.  Ogdensburg sits on the St. Lawrence River directly across from Canada and I understand we had some folks from up north come over for the evening show.

The view from my hotel room of several flocks of Canadian geese flying south over the St. Lawrence.  (Click on the picture for a larger shot to better see the geese,)

The geese

After the morning show I taught a master class on Steinbeck and "Of Mice and Men" before we all loaded up and headed east.  We went across upstate New York and into Vermont near Lake Champlain.

The glow of sunset over Lake Champlain

When we first got our schedule for the tour and I saw that we'd be in upstate New York and New England in November I figured for sure that we'd have snow when we were here.  But as has been true for this entire tour the weather has been fantastic.  We reached Concord, New Hampshire for an overnight stop around 8:30 Tuesday night and a few of us walked up the street in the crisp night air for dinner at the Common Man Restaurant.  The meal was great and so was the company.

After a good night's sleep we continued eastward to Orono, Maine.  Our stop in Orono represents our easternmost point of the tour.  We're doing tonight's show at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine.

More geese, this time on the Stillwater River outside our hotel in Orono, Maine

Another shot of the Stillwater River

The Collins Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono

Tomorrow morning we'll head south and west on a travel day-off toward New Bedford, Massachusetts.  Friday we start our last weekend on tour with two shows at the Zeiterion in New Bedford then drive to New York to close it out Saturday and Sunday.