And by the way...Vermont is indeed filled with lots of hippies and moonbats, but that state, if you have never been there, is breathtakingly beautiful.
My wife and I enjoy just going for rides, and we were on vacation, and...that was a day we just went for a long ride, two hours this way, two hours that way, going down roads we never went down before, if we saw something cool (Like a round church built in 1812!). we just...stop.
I have a stressful job, but I’ll tell you, sun was shining down, we had all the windows and the moon roof wide open, just going down roads at 35 mph because we could take in better even though the speed limit was 50, but there were no cars!
What a time to be alive...how lucky a man I am!
I have only visited once and I was very young. I’m afraid the show “Newhart” is what I think of as Vermont (and they presented an idyllic picture, at least in the opening sequence).
You have learned to enjoy the little things and take the time to do it. I’ve learned the lesson but haven’t been good at putting it into practice. Good on you!
Wasn’t the Bob Newhart show placed in Vermont? Many years ago in another lifetime I drove an 18 wheeler and time to time I would have a load through vermont, yes, quite picturesque.
And you didn’t stop to visit me?
HUMPH!
Wish I knew you were in these parts.
Burlington, and now Brattleboro are full of socialists. They came in the 60s and have made roots. Not many native Vermonters like them; but they tolerate them.
What I love about being up here [our village is less than 1K people] is the integrity of the people. Hardscrabble, common sense types who step up help you when needed, and generally mind their own business.
You touched upon a old-fashioned virtue that has been lost in places south of here. That is the *honor system*.
Case in point: my son made arrangements to buy a double L kayak from a guy, who said he would meet him at the house at the appointed time; guy couldn’t get out of work to make the meet, so he said, open the door of the house and leave the money on the hall table, and take the kayak. Transaction complete. No stress. No hassle. That’s how the honor system works here.
Used to be you could leave your doors open, and your keys in the car at the store; still like that here; don’t know for how much longer; like double L had to change their guarantee policy b/c so many people took unfair advantage of it.
When I go to town for supplies, I never go over 35mph to drink in the beauty of Vermont; I take back roads on purpose; always pull over if someone seems to want to fly past [a rarity]; more often or not, they stop, back-up and roll down their window to ask if I am having car trouble. Kind folks. Let me know when you are up in the NEK again; drive slow, roll down your windows, smell the new mown hay and the wildflowers and freshly spread manure.
I’ll put up a lemonade stand for ya! And give you directions to the loveliest 18th C church in all of Vermont.
Vermont is beautiful, I’ll grant you but a bit touristy and overated….try most of upstate NY, a best kept secret, especially in the fall. Upstate NY has much more land area, varied regions, quiet old farms that nature has reclaimed...more mountains and hilly plateaus and the rich dark soiled potato growing regions in the Mohawk valley around the old erie and NY state barge canals. How about great lakes regional wineries and those of the finger lakes?...I think NY state even produces superior maple syrup to that of Canada or Vermont! It’s only downside....it’s economy and culture is being destroyed by NYC/downstate tax and spend liberals. I curse the Cuomo family....even the old Italian mobs would have run NY State better than the what the Liberals have done!
VT is also the Oxy abuse capital of the US.