Day 20 Saturday 5-26

We left Lake Champlain area and just took the interstate to Montpelier which is a very small town. Asked at gas station for good restaurant for breakfast and they recommended the Wayside. It was OK but not that great. Surprise was that Jack asked for extra syrup and they charged him 95 cents - in Vermont the center of the maple syrup universe for ______ sake! His whole breakfast - the 2 plate special - was only about $6.

Stopped at the Bragg Farm sugarhouse on the way out of town. Interesting little video and nice to see an old fashioned way of doing things. Been in the family for years. 2200 buckets and I forget how many acres of maple trees.

Then onto New Hampshire. East of Montpelier things start to get a little shabby. Seemed to be a yard sales at every other house along the way with piles and piles of "stuff" along the road. I don't know if they buy from each other or what - or maybe tourists stop, I don't know. We also having been noticing how white this part of the country is. Very, very, very few people of color anywhere from the Hudson River on. Article in this little local paper by a Black woman who has been in Vermont for many years - came to Goddard College and stayed. She was saying it is very racist and tells of a Mexican farm worker who was stopped in town and questioned at length by police and never left the farm again.

Also saw a "dog and car" wash for fund raising in one little town. Now that's a fun idea. Also saw our second Moose Club that has a new logo and now calls itself the family fraternity. Speaking of mooses - signs all along the way to be prepared to brake for moose but we didn't see any. Moose is the theme of a lot of places up this way.

For a holiday weekend we were surprised at how little traffic there is and I swear we only saw 2 other RVs on the roads in Vermont and NH. Where is everyone? Landed in Glen, New Hampshire close to all of the touristy Mt. Washington and White Mountain attractions which we will be taking in for a couple days. Great camp. Very windy and can hear sounds from Storyland Park now and then. It was just reopened after it was taken over by Kennywood in Pittsburgh which we went to all the time growing up. It is a small world.

We were going to make reservations for the high speed catamaran ferry to Nova Scotia but changed our minds when we heard the fee. Guess how much. No, $571. Yikes. We'll drive around and see more of Maine that way anyway.

Picture is of old-d-d guy with full white beard who seemed to be a street person Vermont style. Piles of stuff on the bike. He was making it difficult to pass. I don't think he even knew we were behind him. If you look you can see the White Mountains in the distance. Yep, that's still some snow.