It was about a 4 mile total hike from the hotel through campus and back, but the scenery and the company were top-notch. I was a little surprised to see a mixture of architectural styles along our walk. Buildings dating back hundreds of years next to relatively new construction. It appeared they were building a new stadium along the way for whatever reason-quidditch perhaps. The campus was also empty, in their defense it was 9 in the morning, but I though I'd at least see students walking around on their way to study or something.
Our hotel is just next to the old Delaware Canal (seen below in 1934) which was used to move goods across the state.
To get to campus we crossed the canal and walked along the old "tow path" towards the Washington Road Bridge across Lake Carnegie (as in Andrew Carnegie, as in $$$$$$$)
The path was beautiful and reminded me of how life must have been like here years ago before pavement and hustle and bustle of life.
Crossing the Washington Road Bridge you get a good view of the lake and Princeton's boating facility.
Some Random Buildings and Statues from around Campus.
We eventually made it to the "main street" of Campus-- Nassau St. There were tons of shops and cafes along the route. There were much more people in this area of campus and it even got pretty crowded in areas.
We saw many foreign tourists there and the funniest thing was these two asian gentlemen having way too much fun taking pictures of themselves holding a payphone receiver up to their heads. I guess they don't teach microbiology where they are from.
Walking further down Nassau we came upon Michael Graves Design Group. It was in a really busted house. Below is a photo from target.com of a $10 toilet plunger designed by these people next to the house/business that may have designed it--really??
interesting. very interesting.
All in all I really enjoyed the campus. I just hope that my children will be intellegent enough to attend, but grounded enough not to go.
