9/27/2017 Vermont

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

Button Bay State Park: Vergennes, Vermont
Tim's family, Kathy and hubby Frank, recommended Button Bay for RV camp along the shoreline of Lake Champlain. 

 Mike and Sherry have come out in their RV to meet up with us and experience Fall Colors!  A little slice of heaven right here!

We are here in Vermont during October.  Preparations are being made for winter and for impending snow.  This time of year, we are able to drive up Mount Mansfield here at Stowe, Vermont.  From the top, we get a wide perspective of the Green Mountain National Forest and Champlain Valley below.

SKI SLOPES ARE READY FOR SNOW !

Stowe, Vermont at highest peak 4,393' on Mount Mansfield

We are on the hunt for a real maple syrup farm, heading to Nebr. Knoll Sugarhouse.  We discover the Trapp Family Lodge on the way!  Beautiful Resort and there is a real "Sound of Music" family that have lived here and now their youngest grandson is Master of the Resort.

Von Trapp Family Lodge - Austrian-style mountain resort.

The Front Entrance.  We spent an hour in the lobby and day room area. 
 It is a wonderful story and a beautiful place.

THE NEBR. KNOLL 
SUGARHOUSE with farmed-maple syrup.

 Sampling the maple flavors.

  Leave your money for purchases in the box on the counter.

 "MY GUY" !

  Sunday Drive along Holmes Lake, Vermont

We had to get the bike rack welded; found a local welding company in business for three generations.                

Giroux Family Business 

The Champlain Valley

MIKE AND SHERRY COME TO VISIT US
 IN VERMONT

The Holmes Creek Bridge  

Mike and Sherry

We took a bike ride/hike around our RV Camp and along Lake Champlain at our
Buttonwood RV Camp.







Lake Champlain

This is an airstrip, Mike is waiting for his
 'plane to come in'!





Vergennes, Vermont: the tiniest of towns. We went out 'on the town'; to the theatre at City Hall!

Lunch, downtown Burlington.






Local
Wine tasting.

Cruising on Lake Champlain

Wharf at Burlington, Vermont 

We took a drive around the charming Vergennes, the smallest town in Vermont.

We've enjoyed an abundance of outdoor opportunities, historical attractions, and charming small towns.  Good-bye to good friends; see you on the road again!

The POWER of Vermont weans from Electric Grid.   

    Notice the pond lined with a 'decorative' display of  SOLAR PANELS

SOLAR PANELS AND PROPANE next to each other in the side yard of this farm in Vermont.

VERMONT KILN-DRIED FIREWOOD for sale in many places alongside the road.

Now for the final curtain of the "Colony States" portion of Travel Tour 2017

We see the Adirondack Mountains!

Tim and I to return to New York.

We have come from: the far reaches of Maine, through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and to the Green Mountains of Vermont.

We have resided here in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. 

NOW, 

we have the Adirondacks on our horizon to the West.

We go to discover!