Vermont

Annie & I took off driving through New York on our way to Burlington, VT.  It was an overcast and scattered showers kinda day so we left Ithaca early.   After looking at the map we decided we needed to go through Cooperstown because Dad never took us when we were kids.  We went and checked out the town, but we couldn't bare going into the Hall of Fame without Dad.  It just wouldn't be right.  So we took a picture of the building and went on our way.  While we drive we like to take the most direct route and stay off of the highways.  Well it's amazing some of the roads that the Garmin knows are there... we went on a few back roads that make the hatchetman road (AKA Dottereddy) look like a main road.  We decided to stop for a couple hours and get some coffee and do some email stuff while we were in Saratoga, NY.  Timmy, a friend Atlanta who just moved up to Albany was able to meet us and we checked out the horse races at the casino.  We didn't actually bet any money.  It was just a free place to go and hang out for a while.  After that we left and went and got a drink and some appetizer and I left my american express card at the restaurant.  BLAHHH luckily I realized the next day and have a new one sent already.


BURLINGTON

 

We realized that we are Migrant Workers.   We started down south picking strawberries and we are just moving north with the season picking them wherever we can.  We stayed with Natael, she studied in Costa Rica with me.  She lives just south of Burlington in a town called Charlotte in a big old farm house with 7 other people.  It was a really fun gang full of farmers, bakers, artists, musicians, etc.   They had fresh baked bread everyday and we would go out to the garden and pick lettuce for a salad for dinner.  It was everything I expected Vermont would be. The Old Shed, Natael's favorite hang out, was the "place to go for Karaoke".  Unfortunately this was the only Saturday night of the year it wasn't going on.  We did enjoy mingling with the locals over a few games of virtual bowling.   The next day we went to check out Magic Hat Brewery and have a few tastes there before we went into downtown Burlington to watch one of Natael & Callen's friend sing at a bar.  Bobby and his friend Ben from Ohio were doing a music tour by train. Check out their blog http://www.unionstation.tumblr.com   They are having a really fun exciting trip across the country as well!

Annie and I went on a nice bike ride around the area and hiked up Camel's Back which is the 2nd highest peak in Vermont @ 4188ft.  After that we decided we deserved some ice cream so we stopped at the Ben & Jerry's factory and tried a few samples :)