BU Terrier on Sunday: We're here!

We made remarkably good time – normal time! – to Boston this morning. Yes, there’s a lot of snow, but the roads were mostly clear. We left Marist at 6a, made our usual food stop at Price Chopper on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie, and away we went. The highways were down to about two lanes where there should be three lanes. It wasn’t all that windy. It was sunny. The bus windshield is caked with road sludge. There's a name for that: January. The roads in the city of Boston were remarkably navigable. Speaking of “remarkably navigable”: Our bus driver, Eric, made one of the most nimble (and illegal) U-turns on Commonwealth Avenue, on the heels of a blizzard, that you’ll ever see, powering through the snowy streets. And then upon arrival at the Track and Tennis Center, Eric and his trusty bus threaded the needle between a six-foot snow bank and a huge metal pole (with a little navigation help outside by an old coach bundled in about eight layers of clothes) to get a nifty spot in the parking lot right across the street from the TTC, where he will sit with the bus idling very non-eco friendly for the next 10 hours or so. We’re so early that we cannot even get our packet for another 30 minutes! Hey. We could have worse issues to deal with this morning!