Le Phillips Hotel. This is by far the largest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in. Four people living in a 2-bedroom-suite, it just feels like an apartment, and a very posh one.

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First day of the trip and it was already so much fun. The 12-hour drive from Pittsburgh to Montreal wasn’t as tiring as I expected it to be. I did a fair share of the driving. We practically stopped for breaks an average of 1 per 2 hours. And we never seemed to stop eating and drinking and munching on those perennial supply of Planters nut mix.

Either Jeff’s car has an affinity to bugs or New York State has a lot of bugs. Wham bam! As we were driving on the freeway, we got this occassional splatter of weird-looking sticky substance on our windscreen. I thought it was bird crap at first. Then Jeff told me it was bugs! I was like *speechless*.

One thing I realized from this road trip is that listening to podcasts is one good way to pass time in the car. We were listening to lecture podcasts from various Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, a weekly seminar series by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. It’s funny how we always skipped lectures in school and now we are listening to lectures on our road trip!? Anyway Tina Seelig, the executive director of the program gave a very inspiring talk titled “What I wish I knew when I was 20“. She shared about her insights into what people should know before they hit the age of 20. Among those advice I could recall now were “It’s the small things that matter most” and “Try alot of things and keep those that work”. I thought they made a lot of sense. I’ll probably write about them in a separate post. For the interested folks, here’s the podcast.