This weekend GradFest (the kick-off week) arranged two hikes, and since I'm struggeling getting out of town on my own due to lack of vehicle, I bought the tickets. First out was the Saturday hike, two hours long. It started and and ended at Cape Spear, the most east point of North America. It was super-sunny (got a little tan going!), super-windy (it is not unusual that people actually fall down the cliff and into the Atlantic due to the strong winds), and gorgeous. The wind made the hike endurable, otherwise it'd have been nearly too hot for such a walk. The most North American thing about it all though was the pick-up by a proper, yellow, school bus. 

(By the way - if you click on the small pictures they enlarge, in case you've missed this..)