Road Trip Day 4

Sunday, 4 Oct 2009

We carried on north east still in New York State. We had to get a car ferry across Lake Champlain at Ticonderoga www.middlebury.net/tiferry/ which is a long lake that runs from north of the Canadian border south for over 180 kms and is also the border between New York State and Vermont State.  Mark like me enjoys trying to understand the way a place works and we therefore routinely tried to find a little local diner each day to have brunch in a do some people watching.

As we traveled northward the fall colours became more and more apparent, with yellows, oranges, golds, and reds of the deciduous varieties all contrasting against the greens of the pines and other evergreens. There are little townships and sky resorts scattered all through Vermont with lots of trees as well as some agriculture especially beef and diary.
The weather was pleasant, cooler than New York State but still sunny with some autumn warmth still radiating from the sun.
We arrived in Stowe, Vermont our intended destination in the early afternoon www.gostowe.com . We had a look around the town which is a sky resort in winter and a hiking and mountain biking location in summer. In is nestled in the Green Mountain range. We managed to find the house where Scott, Peter, Michael and Kevin were staying in. It was a very nice house, but was probably 10 minutes out of town on a dirt road named "Bull Moose Run Road". We chatted to Scott for a couple of hours and went for a walk up the hill to better catch the amazing views and colours. The other boys had driven up to Montreal for the day. Mark and I went back into Stowe and found some accommodation at a nice place called the Green Mountain Inn www.greenmountaininn.com . It is a lovely old place with a strong sense of history dating back to the mid 1800s and a Victorian feel to it. We met up with the boys and had a nice meal and some equally nice wine at the Ye Ole English Inn www.englandinn.com .