On our way!

I picked up my twin sister, Karolyn, from the Hartford airport and I wanted to show her something she wouldn't get back home in California! I took her to Vermont, not thinking that the last thing she would want to do was drive after being in the plane for so long! But we headed up highway I95 from Connecticut and soon passed through Massachusetts and had lunch in Battleboro VT along the Connecticut River.

We then headed west and stopped at the Vermont Country Store in Rockingham where you can find things I remembered from my childhood as well as some things I could not imagine! There were old style toys, penny candy, soaps from years ago like Fels-Naptha soap that we used for poison oak, as well as tasty Vermont cheeses and maple syrup! Fun. "Remember this?" was the common question!

We made it to Lake Champlain VT in Vergennes where we had a site with a lake view.

We got up early to see the sun rise over the water! Beautiful! Then we took a walk to a point on Lake Champlain.

We had a busy day!  We headed to Burlington first. Then Karolyn had her first Lobster roll at a restaurant in Burlington. Good, but not as good as the one I had in Connecticut!

Then it was a stop to see the Round Church in Richmond, VT. It was built in 1812 and has 16 sides. It housed 5 different denominations, each taking a turn for services. It was later used for town meetings.

Then it was Ben & Jerry's tour and a new favorite ice cream... Carmel Core! We bought some every time we saw it!

No.... Not broccoli... Carmel Core!

We headed south to Emerald Lake State Park in Dorset CT for the night. We had a pretty walk around the lake in the morning. Then it was on to a rv park in East Haddam, CT, near my sister in law, Kate's home. Kate lives in Deep River, CT, which was founded in 1638! Hard to believe for us Californians with white history beginning after the gold rush in 1849!

The three of us start on the trip to Canada tomorrow!