It’s a natural law of the universe that if crossing upstate Vermont, a stop at Ben & Jerry’s is required! And no one wants to antagonize the ice cream gods, so we stopped at the birth place of Ben & Jerry’s. We were sure we were going to order a big sundae, but, by the time we took the tour and had the samples, we were satisfied. Both production lines were running Cherry Garcia, their top selling flavor, and we sampled Chocolate Therapy, which was very therapeutic to a long day on the road. We continued on to Grand Isle which is in the middle of Lake Champlain, and we are camped with a view of the Lake.
We saw the small towns and country roads by taking Hwy 2, and Vermont has to be one of our most beautiful states. Driving through the small towns is like seeing a Norman Rockwell painting come to life. It is our 49th state in population, and even the capitol of Montpelier is a small town nestled into the side of the green hills. It is the Green Mountain State. The wind is whipping up on Lake Champlain, but the breeze feels good on a humid evening. This evening we had dinner with a childhood friend of mine, whom I haven’t seen for about 46 years. Ken and his wife, Lee, moved to Vermont to get away from it all right after college, and they are now comfortably retired on a forty acre farm which they carved out of the wilderness. It was just a kick to see my old childhood friend with whom I had many interesting adventures. We were young, mischievous, and usually in trouble, but we had great times in the suburbs of Detroit in the early 1960’s. It’s an amazing experience to connect again after 46 years and fill in the blanks of our lives. It was a great dinner at a resort on the shores of Lake Champlain and great fun to talk about our lives.
For several months I have been trying to figure out the best way around Lake Champlain, and there is a twelve minute ferry ride several miles from here that takes us straight across, and it’s RV friendly. Lake Champlain is a gorgeous body of fresh water with world class fishing. My friend here does a lot of water and ice boarding on the lake and makes his own boards. Tomorrow we are headed into the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. We plan to camp near Lake Placid for a couple nights before driving on west through this giant state park.
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