The last week of July was my vacation with the BF, and since he had a family reunion, we headed over to Vermont and the adjacent area of New York. (My personal vacation is coming up in September, and it’s completely awesome – as I’ll be able to post about in October.) A lot of […]
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We headed over to Vermont this past weekend, and spent some time meandering the backroads to our traditional trip to the Northshire Book Store in Manchester. It was the perfect weekend for that kind of drive. It was cold, but clear, with that insanely blue sky that only winter can manage.
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For New Year’s, we headed over to Vermont, to visit the BF’s family. They’re smack in the middle of the region that was badly effected by Hurricane Irene. Their town (Bennington), was only minorly effected – mostly by the temporary loss of the water supply coming out of the mountains, but the route we take
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I spent my weekend away in Vermont, and Upstate New York. The upstate New York portion was for BF’s family reunion, on one of his aunt’s farm. There were hay rides, and a bonfire, and smores, and lots of lovely people. We even got to see some sort of Amish-esque farmers driving their buggies as
And, last, but not least, since we were coming from northern Vermont, we came home through the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and took the opportunity to take the Kancamagus Highway through the White Mountains National Forest. There a number of lovely scenic overviews to stop at, but we did miss the Otter Stream stops
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The other part of our epic trip to Vermont was a trip up to Burlington, where some college friends of BF, who now live in Arizona, were up visiting family. We had a wonderful time visiting with them, but also had some time to go on a nostalgia tour of the UVM campus for BF.
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Last weekend, we did a moderately epic trip to Vermont. The first reason for said trip was the wedding of a friend of BF’s family. The reception was held on the lovely grounds of Hildene, which was Robert Todd Lincoln’s home. It’s a beautiful home, which I did not have the time to explore, though
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In the interests of finding new and different things to do on a Saturday where we have nowhere special to be, the BF came up with the idea of making a list of state parks, and trying to visit as many as possible this summer. So we started this Saturday, at pretty much the southernmost
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Trillium from Vermont, strawberries from my neighborhood, all others from the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden.
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