Today we woke around 7:30, packed up, ate breakfast and got
on the road for a rather long drive to Stowe, Vermont. We hit a lot of rain along the way but we
stopped in Augusta, Maine (the 3rd least populated capitol city in
the county – population 19,000 ish) and saw Fort Western, the oldest
still-standing wooden fort, built in the mid-1700’s and used by Benedict Arnold
to assemble his troops prior to the Battle of Quebec. I thought Grant might find it interested
because he had just studied all of this in fourth grade American History class.
From Augusta, we headed east but it was slow going and a lot
more rain. We settled on lunch in
Bethel, ME (population sub 3,000 and we ate at Bethel House of Pizza, the only
restaurant we’d seen in hours. The
restaurant was in a house and it was some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. The
cook said he makes the dough every morning.
What a surprise – best meal of the trip.
We pulled into Stowe around 4pm and checked into the
Stoweflake Resort & Spa. Our room is
big and neat and old– it has a gas fireplace (which doesn’t work). Nick and I headed out on a walk along the
city rec trail and it follows the river that runs through town. We headed “north” towards the ski mountain
and the air smelled like Cannon Beach.
Kids were playing and swimming in the river.
After we returned to the room, we grabbed the kids and drove
about 5 miles up the road to the Bingham waterfalls.
The trail was completely covered in trees and
was very short but once we got down to the falls, we crossed over the river so
that we could get a good view of the third fall (the tallest of them all). They were very cool – cut down deep into the
earth. But the air was so thick that
your hands felt wet.
We got back in the car and drove back into town. We drove around a bit and drove up Covered
Bridge Rd (the first one we’ve driven over/through).
Then we had dinner at the Depot Street Malt
Shop and the food was surprisingly delicious.
Nick and I each had French onion soup and a salad and I think it was the
best French onion I’ve had. Grant got a
root beer float and Ryan had a burger.
Now we’re back in the room (it’s 8:30pm) and we’re settling
in for the night.
There are lots of interesting things we want to do tomorrow
so we’ll be up early!
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