This Week's Posts Are Coming From Cornell's Adult University, Where I am Enjoying a Learning Vacation

I am writing this short report from a room in Ithaca, New York, where I have just returned from a day of registration and orientation at Cornell's Adult University. Tomorrow morning, my wife and I go to the first of a week of day-long classes called "Political Trials" taught by three eminent professors from the American Studies division of Cornell's College of Arts and Science, and the Cornell Law School. We shall be discussing a series of eight important and contentious judicial trials ranging from last century's Haymarket prosecutions to the more recent court epics involving Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby.
 
In the world of leisure travel, learning vacations are certainly among the most rewarding of all trips, and I've tried to experience a number of them, ranging from summer attendance at Oxford University ("Ancient Egyptian History") to St. John's College ("Dante's Inferno") in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have always known that the Cornell program was also one of the major examples of such adventures, and this week I have at last managed to free myself from other obligations to take the plunge in Ithaca. Everything I have thus far seen confirms that Cornell's Adult University is a remarkable travel opportunity.
 
Two of our professors for this week have solemnly warned that we need to be on time for tomorrow's 9 a.m. class, so I have cut short a 10pm reception for class members to return to my lodgings to quickly type this initial report. There will be more tomorrow and all the days of this week.
 
It's back to college, for the best kind of vacation.