Day 81 - Back on the Road

We headed out early this morning (before 7AM). As we made our last trip down Abbeyville Rd, there was a friendly fauna there to tell us goodbye and safe travels. We'll miss Lake Placid. Again...thanks Beth for introducing us to this magical world. Camp Placidmere "rules!"

Mother Nature says goodbye...

We spent a leisurely day driving east and making one last ferry crossing of Lake Champlain. It was a cool 37 degrees this morning, but it warmed up nicely for a great day of Jeep cruising with the windows down. Lizzy's travel plan had us heading east for one last trip through Vermont. We passed through Rutland where we enjoyed a walk down memory lane. In Rutland is the Norman Rockwell Museum. Therein are originals and copies of every illustration the man ever created. My goodness, he must have never slept. Endless walls of drawings from Boy's Life, Outdoor Gentleman, Niblets Corn and, of course, The Saturday Evening Post. It's incredible how many of his pictures from an era before we were born were so familiar. The man defines prolific!

From there we headed a bit east to Woodstock, VT where we ate at the #1 rated venue, The Woodstock Farmers Market...whoa! Nuff said!!

Our journey ended in Brattleboro. No sooner had we stopped than Lizzy had us headed for the Grafton Cheese Market. Has anyone ever heard of Vermont Cheese? Well, let me tell ya', you ain't lived until you savored a few nibbles of some of the tastiest cheese north of the Mason Dixon Line. The sun shines just a little brighter on this sacred spot.

Definitely made a purchase here!

From there we headed to the Connecticut River and a little pub on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire. It is so "on the border" there's a line painted on the floor inside across which you can cross, and re-cross, and re-cross, and re-cross...  Of course, some of their local IPA makes the journey make a bit more sense. Outside on the deck overlooking the Connecticut River is the place to be for an early dinner.

Hey! A gal's gotta eat somewhere...

...might as well be here!

Cool Bridge, huh?

While tomorrow is basically another travel day, we will see the first two of many covered bridges yet to come; one is in Massachusetts and the other in Connecticut. Then it's on to Pennsylvania where covered bridges rule. With almost 200, no other states comes close. We will only see a few, but we have plans to catch half of the most picturesque and famous ones. Can't wait!

Stay tuned!!