Been without WIFI for a while!! Burlington and such

 When in Vermont........ you have to tour Ben and Jerry's.  So we did.  No production that day, but free samples anyway!

We stayed in the local Elks Club.  We didn't realize that this was the biggest weekend of their year,  They had a family bar-b-que. Complete with Jumpy house and Elk!  Food and fun for all free. The Elk even posed by the RV's.  Burlington is a neat town.

 We were surprised to find out that only 10 minutes from the Elks club was part of the Burlington Bike trail.  So this morning Jim and I rode North on it.

Just down from the RV was this beautiful site of Lake Champlain.

Jim posing beside the train sign.

Weird Day touring today

 We started off the day to see a "floating Bridge". Well the bridge doesn't float anymore so we too pretty reflective pictures.

 The water in front of these houses is 1900 feet deep per the locals and is made into chunks for carving in the winter.

The off to Barre to tour the Granite  Quarry at Rock of Ages.  They cut out much of the grey granite used for memorials and buildings in the US.

There were samples of various headstones and Jim and David tried some out for size!

A Granite day isn't complete without a trip to Hope Cemetery to see some of the handiwork from the quarry.  This day only reinforced my desire to be cremated.  LOL!!!!  A race car headstone.....REALLY!!!!!

Randolph Center, Vt.

 A view of the Lake at our Campground

 Quechee Covered Bridge was destroyed last year by Hurricane Irene.  A wall 20feet high of water came rushing down the river and destroyed the structure of the bridge.They are redoing it and today we watched as they took off the last section of roof.  The bridge is scheduled to be in use this December.

The longest Covered Bridge is in Windsor.  We drove over it and discovered that we were in New Hampshire!

A relaxing day

 Today we woke up after a night of thunderstorms and decided it was a great day to Kayak the Saco River

Dave and Sherry had a tandem and Jim and I had solo's. What a great day.  We just took a lazy ride down the river.

View of the river..... Peaceful!

Mt Washington, the oldest mountain car drive

 Our poor car, today we drove it to Mt Washington, 6000 + ft mountain drive in 8 miles.  Then we set down to see the view!!!!!

 The view!

Then later we went to the summit.  Only a short hike to the top!  58 degrees up there.  80 + in the valley.

North Conway , NH and covered bridge

 Today was our no car, no drive day. So we walked into town to check out the liquor prices and a covered bridge over the Saco River/

What a beautiful day.  Kids in tubes on the River and just beautiful weather.

Had steak and lobster for dinner at the campsite, a fire, some blueberry wine and the day was complete.

Conway, New Hampshire

 Here we are at the Beach Family Area.  Nice shaded sites on the Sago River.  This place had to be re-done after Hurricane Irene last year flooded the place.  Today we took off on an adventure to meet Pip and Cecile and get back the booze they stored for us while we went to Canada.   We saw a farmers market on the way and stopped in for fresh vegetables and bread.  UMM good

After the job was done we continued up to The Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch State Park.  The flume is a natural gorge at the base of Mt Liberty. The walls of Conway granite rise 70-90 ft and are 12-20 feet wide. The Flume was discovered by a 93 YO woman named Jess Guernsey when she found it accidently in 1808 .

The pool above is a deep basin in the Pemigewasset River.  It was formed at the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago by a silt laden stream flowing from a glacier.  The pool is 40 feet deep and 150 feet in diameter and is surrounded by 130 foot cliffs.