Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
We are dedicating this day to our friend Ellen. Ellen is from this area of Vermont and most of the activities today are great suggestions from her! Weather: Nice morning. Hot and humid in afternoon. Rain showers during outdoor theater, got plenty wet. Rain into the evening. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 8, SaturdayI don’t know if we would have ever found Bread and Puppet Theater without a recommendation from our friend Ellen but it was well worth the additional drive to Glover, VT. Bread and Puppet has been putting on political theater since 1974 in this location. The performances feature …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Bread and Puppet TheaterWeather: Perfect. Drive to Manchester, VT. 🚙 Coffee at Charlie’s Coffee House. Better coffee elsewhere. ☕️ Breakfast at Little Rooster. 🍽 Alpine Slide at Bromley Mountain. We all did it, first time for everyone but Tammy. 🤪 Hiked a bit of the Appalachian Trail in Vermont, a mile …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 7, FridayIf you are any kind of a fan of pinball, Pastime Pinball would be your heaven. There is an amazing collection of pinball machines over the years, and they are all maintained perfectly. Everything works, and the game play is just as it was meant to be. They even had one of my …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Pastime PinballWe visited the Hildene house, which was the private family house of the Abraham Lincoln’s only child that lived to adulthood, and became quiet wealthy.
*Hildene House from the front.* *Rear of the house from the formal gardens.* *Hildene House formal gardens.* *Hildene House dining room.*
Afternoon ice cream at Cold Cow Creamery. Tyler opted for a Blondie bar from a coffee shop instead. The Maple Shake was tremendous.
I have had a growing interest in the Appalachian Trail ever since I read Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. So it was a special treat when we were driving back down Bromley Mountain and there was a parking area that connected directly to the Appalachian Trail. We decided to hike …
Keep reading · 1 minute: A Mile of the Appalachian TrailIn my head Alpine Slides look dangerous. There is no good reason for that. Visually they look like a luge track and it makes me think of people on bobsleds going at insane speeds. Now having done it, this analogy seems utterly ridiculous, but that is what was in my head. When …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Alpine Slide at BromleyWeather: Perfect! Hung out at schoolhouse and made breakfast using eggs from the farm. Walked the farm and checked out Studio Hill. Left for Saratoga Springs. Lunch at Kaleidoscope Cafe and met Bruce the owner. Went to Saratoga Springs race track and watched and bet on three …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 6, ThursdayWe saw the Jungle Cruise at Hathaway’s Drive-in! It has become a bit of a tradition to go to a drive-in movie on trips.
