We've been at Lake Champlain since last Tuesday and are having a great time in the area. The campground where we are staying is right on the lake and we have a great view. More important, though, is that it's filled with the friendliest people we have encountered thus far on our trips. There are about a dozen seasonal folks here who all seem to want to make everyone welcome and go out of their way to offer help and assistance.
In the "what are the odds of that" category, 3 sites down from us are a couple we know from Beaufort, SC...out of the hundreds of campgrounds in the area, and thousands in the country, they just happened to be here at the same time as us.....it is a small world.
The Lake Champlain and Burlington area are some of the prettiest areas we've seen. Every road has farms, and hills and mountains....just one vista after another.
The city of Burlington is unique. It's kind of a throwback to the sixties, with a touch of the 70's and 80's. There are 60+ year old people who appear to be original "hippies" and there are more tattoo's per person than just about anywhere we've been.
Bike riding is a passion and there are many bike paths and riders are treated with care and given safe places to ride. It's a great place to have a bike and we've really enjoyed having them with us. (Maryellen keeps making noises about getting an electric bike, but I'm not listening....)
Since our site faces West, the sunsets each night are spectacular.
Yesterday (Saturday the third of July) was a great day. A nice couple from the area, who stay at the campground for the season, invited us out to breakfast at a great diner....and we had a BIG breakfast...so big that we skipped lunch and had a light dinner since we were not even hungry. We followed that with a visit to a local farmer's market where we got some FRESH vegetables and bread. We were surprised how good fresh potatoes were and we don't think we ever had any that had just been harvested before....they were delicious and needed nothing on them to taste great.
We came back to the campground and Paul was in heaven as Phred, one of the campers was a great guitarist and we played outdoors for hours until our fingers couldn't take anymore.
After that a big group got together at the water to watch the sunset, then fireworks.
To cap off the day, we met an amateur astronomer (and bass guitar player) who knew a tremendous amount about planets, constellations and stars. We had a great time just looking at the stars. Coincidentally, he knew John Hunter, the bass player in our old band (T.H. Rhode) from 30 years ago...
A truly great day. We may stay here a little longer.......
Paul and Maryellen
The last couple of days we roamed around Acadia on the “loop road” and the scenery was amazing on nearly the entire route. It reminds us of the Blue Ridge Parkway in some ways as it winds its way through small mountains…but with the addition of ocean vistas, with rocky beaches and cliffs.
