Leaving Canada

Here's the gas station near Halifax Airport where the hire car got a top up before we left for the States.  

The trip from Amherst to Halifax Airport involved driving through heavy snow, especially thick across the Cobequid Pass where conditions reached almost total white-out and it was impossible to discern where the road was.  We stopped under an overpass allowing two other cars to pass, and then came two trucks, the trucks making a track we could follow out of the impasse; within a kilometre, we passed the other two cars stranded in deep snow at varying angles to the side of the road.

Canada and Ireland operate systems whereby travelers complete their US immigration before departure - this greatly expedites entry into the the US through its busier airports.

We had good views of the coast and islands off Maine and Massachusetts - we flew directly over Boston and had good views out to Cape Cod, we saw many snowy ski fields across Connecticut, and the the usual holding pattern before descent into Newark enabled us to see lakes beginning to freeze in New Jersey.  Manhattan's skyline was spectacularly clear.