In March 2003 I visited The Ohio State University to attend the “Groups And Computation IV” conference. Here are some pictures.
Tower City is a shopping centre, train station, bus station, hotel,... in central Cleveland. That's where I arrived via the train link to the airport. Euclid Avenue is forward and on the left, Lake Erie is behind (so the photograph is facing south).
I was rather confused by the road signs for the road names. I cannot remember whether a sign you pass under gives the name of the road you are on, or the name of the road you could turn off to. It took me some time to work out which road is Euclid Avenue, even though it is signed.
Being a mathematician, I thought that “Euclid Avenue” would be a good place to stay!
My hotel room in centre (“downtown”) Cleveland where I stayed for 1 night after flying in and before getting the bus to Columbus. It doesn't look unusual on the photograph since everything is in the usual proportion, but that bed is 3 pillows wide!
“Downtown” doesn’t seem to mean “city centre”. In fact our concept of town/city centre doesn’t seem to exist.
Pictures from the hotel window in Cleveland. Looks like it does on the TV really.
Steam really does come out of man hole covers!
The thin strip of water just below the sky is Lake Erie. This seems to be as close as you can get without some fuss, as there is a railway and a motorway to cross.
When I arrived in Columbus I tried to walk to the motel, but gave up after well over an hour. This is a very long suburban street with small wooden houses crammed down each side. There are lots of streets like this, in fact this is the only kind of house I’ve seen which seems to imply that most Americans are not as rich as we think.
(Pronounced “olentanjy”) 1 is looking south towards downtown. 2 is looking north, one of the signs on the right before the corner is for our motel. The pink building behind the garden center sign in the foreground is the other hotel. The university is less than an hours walk from here (that means exceptionally close!). It seems that this road has unusually few overhead cables!
