I'm finally there: in Columbia, at the University of South Carolina. Just to prove it my USC ID-card is pictured above. On 11 August I left from Schiphol airport. No jokes about the bags, please. I'm really going for half a year this time!

After spending 7 hours sitting too close to the engine of an old DC-10 (is that corrosion on the engine?) I got my first view of America.

After a long delay in Newark, where the air pollution soon drove me back inside the airport building, I finally arrived in Charlotte, NC, where Prof. Morgan (standing on the left) was waiting for me.