Vermont

Vermont is beautiful and interesting with too much to describe, so we'll just let the photos do most of the talking.
This was the first covered bridge Sophia got to cross in a vehicle.  Don't think she exhaled until we were back on pavement.  There a bridge every 15 miles in VT/NH, but we usually stop to look and see 'cause they're just so cool!

I love general stores, especially those run by octogenarians that spent 19 months serving at Ft Sam in the early '60s.  The fact that Doug also sells hunting licenses, bologna, Vermont syrup, Vermont wine, 12-cent coffee because it was 12-12-12, and just about everything else one could need.  Yep, spent more time in here than several of the national museums we'd been to...

The Vermont Marble Museum was closed for the season, but did learn some cool stuff about it - knew granite was igneous, but wasn't aware marble was sedimentary, for instance...

And learned too much about maple syrup at the New England Maple Museum.  Ended up confused - can't decide if I like the light Grade A or the heavy Grade B better on waffles...dilemmas!

 

 And while wandering one of the "paths least taken," happened upon this...