Jamie Thingelstad

Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 8.

✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe 🔲 Bismarck

• Check out of Airbnb.
• Everyone has light breakfast and coffee at Stowe Bee Cafe.
• Shopping in Stowe before we have to leave.
• One last Maple Creemee at Red Barn Ice Cream.
• Drive to Burlington.
• Return rental car.
• DL 4901 back to Minneapolis.
• Olson Family Vacation 2025 officially concludes.
• Pit stop at home for one night before starting the final segment of our trip.

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With the ever growing cadre of tools that can help us create this is an important reminder that Writing is Thinking from Nature.

However, writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas. Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner. By writing it down, we can sort years of research, data and analysis into an actual story, thereby identifying our main message and the influence of our work.

Sometimes folks ask me if I use AI to help write the Weekly Thing and I tell them something just like this. No. I do not. Because the Weekly Thing is part of how I continue to learn myself. If I were to delegate that I would miss my own goal of learning.

A secondary desire of mine is to become a better writer. I suspect the best way to do that is to write more. And if writing is indeed thinking, does becoming a better writer make you a better thinker? I think so.

Olson Family Vacation 2025.

Tammy and I cycled 8.28 miles in 49.7 minutes on the Stowe Recreation Path. Ran out of time to do the last bit but covered most of it. 🚴‍♂️

Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 6.

• Drive to Burlington for bike ride.
• Morning snacks at August First.
• Rent bikes at Local Motion and ride Island Line Trail, take Bike Ferry, and go South Hero.
• Get too much chocolate at NU Chocolat.
• Drive back to Airbnb.
• Afternoon relax in the pool.
• Dad’s take the kids to dinner. First place is closed so fallback to Doc Ponds. Women are out for dinner The Bistro at Ten Acres.
• Stop for Maple Creemees at Red Barn Ice Cream.
• Return to Airbnb for the night.

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We all rented bikes at [Local Motion](Island Line Trail in Burlington and rode the Island Line Trail over the Colchester Causeway. We took the Bike Ferry across “the gap” and finally turned around at Allenholm Farms on South Hero Island and made our way back.

Morning cappuccino at Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea. Very good.