Sky Sports News reporter Kaveh Solhekol is with Liverpool for their pre-season tour of the United States. Here's his latest missive...
Who says footballers are thick? Last week Liverpool were training at Harvard. This week they're training at Princeton.
Harvard and Princeton are the Oxford and Cambridge of the United States. A place at either is often a passport to fame and fortune.
Harvard is where eight US Presidents, including Barack Obama and John F Kennedy, went to university. It has produced 62 living billionaires. That's even more than the Premier League.
Princeton is the richest university in the world. Albert Einstein lectured here and the man who set up amazon, Jeff Bezos, sat his final exams here.
Liverpool trained at Princeton on Monday because the club's American owners have close links with the university.
Getting here from New York should be easy - it's only a 50 mile - but the traffic meant that Liverpool's coach journey took more than two hours.
The US tour though has been a big success, apart from occasional problems with the traffic, Adam Lallana's knee injury and Loic Remy's failed medical.
The squad have been greeted by crowds wherever they've gone. Soccer is definitely growing in the States and Liverpool are just as famous as they've always been.
One man who didn't know what all the fuss was about though was our bus driver in Chicago.
"Where you guys headed?" he said.
We told him we were following Liverpool, one of the world's most famous football teams.
"Do people get paid to play soccer?" he said.
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