Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Canada. What day is it?

After spending the night in Harrisburg we got up early Sunday morning for our drive to New Jersey.

Railroad bridge over the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, PA

The John Harris Mansion, home of the man who founded Harrisburg in the 1800's

Robin taking a walk in the park near our hotel before we left Harrisburg Sunday

We arrived in Newark early in the afternoon and after checking into our hotel across from the airport we drove to the campus of Kean University in Union for our 3 PM matinee in the Wilkins Theatre for the Performing Arts.

A view of Manhattan from my hotel room near Newark Airport

The Wilkins Theater in Union, NJ

Fight call before the show in Union

The show went well and afterwards several folks went into the city to visit friends.  John Hardy grew up in the area so he drove around with an old friend and visited some of his childhood haunts in New Jersey.  A few of us just headed back to the hotel for dinner and TV.  I watched the inexplicable decision to go for it on fourth down inside his own 30 that New England Patriot coach Bill Belichick made that subsequently led to Indianapolis getting its ninth win of the NFL season.  (If you don't know what I'm talking about you're probably not a football fan and you wouldn't care.  If you are a football fan you already know what it was.  I don't care what he thought.  It was not a good plan.)

Newark by night

Got to sleep relatively early since we were leaving at 8:30 this morning for our drive to Ogdensburg, New York.  After a lunch stop in Syracuse we made it to our hotel on the St. Lawrence River just before sunset.  I can look out my window to see Canada just across the river.  (Not quite as good a line as Sarah Palin seeing Russia from her house but I'm not running for anything.)

Sunset over the St. Lawrence River with the US on the left and Canada on the right

As I write this we've just started tonight's performance at the George Hall Auditorium in Ogdensburg that begins our last week of the tour.

The George Hall Auditorium in Ogdensburg, NY

Waiting for fight call

We've seen both Mexico and now Canada on this trip, plus beautiful views of almost every region in the US all along the way.  Over the next week we'll go across New England and back before heading home to Virginia. What a tour!