New England Fall - Middlebury VT and the surrounding Green Mountains of Vermont
We drive the slow way from North Conway to our next destination, Middlebury Vermont and it was beautiful color all the way there. It's raining as we leave, but the rain ends midday and turns blue sky for most of our time in Middlebury. We stumbled on a gorge (for the east - it really is a deep gorge) near Woodstock, Vermont, . Middlebury is home to Middlebury College - a beautiful campus - a lovely town - we really enjoyed Middlebury and if we weren't confirmed westerners at this point, it would be on the short list of places to potentially move to (a constant theme of ours). Our accommodation is a wonderful airbnb where we have our own master suite with attached office. The hosts are a wonderful retired ER doc (Paul) and his semi-retired pediatrics nurse practitioner wife (Mary).
Our first night we ate at a restaurant called Fire and Ice (a title of a Robert Frost poem) that had the largest and most wonderful salad bar we have ever seen - we had the salad bar and a bowl of clam chowder (delicious). Our first full day here we knocked around the town and college, shopping and taking photos on a beautiful cool fall day, ending by driving over to Lake Champlain and taking in a small museum at the foot of the bridge (area factored in the Revolutionary War), where we were literally the last museum guests of the year (it was their last open day of the year). Indian food (very good) in town was the dinner that night.
On our second day we drove back into the Green mountains (Middlebury is in the Lake Champlain Valley, but the Green Mountains are immediately adjacent to the east), got lost a bit on an even more glorious day - took lots of photos - and stumbled on a trailhead, where we hiked to the top of Mt. Abraham (this trail was part of the Long trail - a 220 mile long trail that connects the Appalachian trail to Canada through Vermont and ??). Another fairly strenuous hike, although not as tough as Mt. Kearsarge in NH. Great 360 degree views from the top where we could see Lake Champlain, burlington, VT; Canada, and even over to MT. Washington in NH. The photos definitely do not do it justice. We even met a neighbor of Bernie Sanders at the summit! That night we bought deli items and ate in our airbnb.
We set out the next morning heading to Manchester, VT via highway 100 through the Green Mountains. More fall beauty!
Our first night we ate at a restaurant called Fire and Ice (a title of a Robert Frost poem) that had the largest and most wonderful salad bar we have ever seen - we had the salad bar and a bowl of clam chowder (delicious). Our first full day here we knocked around the town and college, shopping and taking photos on a beautiful cool fall day, ending by driving over to Lake Champlain and taking in a small museum at the foot of the bridge (area factored in the Revolutionary War), where we were literally the last museum guests of the year (it was their last open day of the year). Indian food (very good) in town was the dinner that night.
On our second day we drove back into the Green mountains (Middlebury is in the Lake Champlain Valley, but the Green Mountains are immediately adjacent to the east), got lost a bit on an even more glorious day - took lots of photos - and stumbled on a trailhead, where we hiked to the top of Mt. Abraham (this trail was part of the Long trail - a 220 mile long trail that connects the Appalachian trail to Canada through Vermont and ??). Another fairly strenuous hike, although not as tough as Mt. Kearsarge in NH. Great 360 degree views from the top where we could see Lake Champlain, burlington, VT; Canada, and even over to MT. Washington in NH. The photos definitely do not do it justice. We even met a neighbor of Bernie Sanders at the summit! That night we bought deli items and ate in our airbnb.
We set out the next morning heading to Manchester, VT via highway 100 through the Green Mountains. More fall beauty!
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