This is the falls on the creek at Barrewood Campground where we stayed Sunday night, July 5th in Vermont. Can you imagine owning property and having your very own falls!!!!! Positively gorgeous.
Now for the following....haven't had internet since days ago....so I'm just going to put up the blog I typed and try to caption the pics that are below. Don't have enough time to sort out everything...and believe me....it needs sorting....so try to keep your eyes from crossing....
July 4, 2009 Happy Birthday, America! And we are truly blessed being on the road enjoying the beauties and the bounty of this great and God blessed country.
We left the rainy and muddy camp this am and headed east just a few miles to the Eisenhower Locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Very interesting. It was a bit nippy in the wind. There was a wonderful movie in the visitor center (that had obviously been a program on Modern Marvels on the Discover Channel) about the making of the Seaway. It was very interesting. Then we went down the way to see the huge hydroelectric plant built on the seaway. Everything was on such a huge scale. There was a nice inter-active visitor center at the hydro plant where Dawson had some nice time investigating electricity.
Continuing on eastward in northern New York, we stopped at a charming little restaurant in Malone and had a nice lunch. Then on to Lake Champlain and Vermont. Crossed onto the islands that run down the center of the Lake. Beautiful drive down these loooong islands. Found a state campground at the bottom Long Island. The camp sites were kind of split in two. There were a couple of sisters that Dawson had the best time playing with; riding bikes, taking their kayak to the Lake Champlain, looking for stones in the water, etc. They had a good time.
July 5, 2009 Sunday
Woke to a morning without rain; a novel idea. Nice enough, the Garmen found us a nice little church about 9 miles down the road in Milton, VT. Liesurely got ready and drove to church for Mass. Then on to our hunt for some coved bridges. We found four within a few miles of each other. Very beautiful; built around 1880’s by the same builder. So we only saw one type of architecture in the four bridges. What a nice find.
Then on to the Jay Mountain Tram. We found ourselves in the ski area. Looked a lot like the area was really growing and lots of $$$ being put in the area. We found the tram and Dawson and I took a ride to the top of the ski mountain…a mountain of about 4000 ft. A mere foot hill by Colorado standards; very chilly and windy on top. When we were half way up and it got real windy by one of the towers, the driver tells us that if they hit (!!!) the tower d/t the wind it would have to be shut down. Luckily it was not that windy. We could see forever from the top! All the way to Lake Champlain in the far distance.
Dawson managed to find his Vemont maple syrup today…but I couldn’t find my maple sugar candy. L
Then on to a beautiful Barrewood Campground. They even have a quaint little creek running through it; a 5 min. up the hill by it they have an awesome and picturesque water falls. I couldn’t imagine why the owner didn’t have his personal home right up there! I sure would. Had a wonderful campfire and visited with Mark, the owner of the campground. Very enjoyable.
July 6, 2009 Monday
We woke to a beautiful morning; pretty chilly last night. Vermont is not very wide. We’ll be in Maine within 50 miles when we leave here. Don’t know what’s in store for us today….but can’t wait to see it.
Barrewood Camp falls.
A quaint little restaurant where we had lunch yesterday....or was it Saturday???? Golly, can't keep things straight.
And mom....look at this dessert Dawson had! All he wanted was a bagle and cream cheese for lunch. I personally think that he was saving room for the dessert. But Papa and I got a taste of this "chocolate volcano" cake. Yummy!
We went on a covered bridge hunt and found 4 close around one town in Vermont. Here's the pics of two.
So, until we connect again....
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