Cornell. "Centrally isolated" in the Finger Lakes area of NY :-)

Awwww, beastly!!! Worse than Kenyon. Did you have any friends with access to a prop plane? My Pop Pop was a pilot & there's a story him transporting a pack of kids home to the Eastern Shore MD for the holidays... Ah, family lore 😂

My Eastern Shore time was boy scout camp, and the memorable transportation event was my friend's dad driving us home from there, backwards, because the pushbutton transmission on his early-60s Ford stuck in reverse.

Baaaaahhhhh!!! 😂 oh my god those were the days when there were no signs or street names & people navigated by landmarks. wooow. they'd killed the train a decade before, i think.

I think I-95 had been built by then, but we mostly took I-40 after getting off the local roads. Dave and I sat in the back seat looking out the back window giving directions.

When I was in school, no. My first job after graduation, one of the supervisors in my department DID have a plane, and had gone to Cornell, and I had a few friends in rec.aviation. But I had friends with cars by sophomore year, so I could at least get a fairly direct ride to Philly.