Today was a perfect weather day. Sunny and about 70 when we started out about 9 am. Low humidity with a high expected around 80 degrees. A light breeze kept us cool. We took the ferry over Lake Champlain to Middlebury, VT. It is an historic town with the historic and very exclusive Middlebury College. The campus is full of beautiful stone buildings and huge expanses of lawn. The historic center of town has tons of cute shops and good restaurants and Otter Creek runs through the center with paths down to it. From Middlebury we drove the scenic back roads through the Green Mountains to Ripton where the poet Robert Frost spent his summers from 1939 to 1963. We walked up a path in the woods to the old cabin where he would go to write. Nearby is a wonderful nature trail with his poems scattered along the route. It was a great place for a picnic lunch.
From there we drove to Texas Falls which is a cascading water fall with a nature trail and several viewpoints. Then on to the ritzy ski resort of Killington and Pico Mtn. Not much going on during July but the drive there was along rivers, creeks full of boulders, and always the Green Mountains above us. Spectactular. Back to the ferry for another fun crossing and a pretty drive along the New York shore of Lake Champlain. Long day but thoroughly wonderful.
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