small towns

Dear Dad,

As promised, Green Mountain Coffee in Burlington, VT, oh what a beautiful morning! We took the ferry from NY at 9:30 and arrived at the Church Street Marketplace at 10:30 before the heat and the crowds. It was just like I remembered, I love Vermont! Not only the quaint shops, good coffee and Green Mountains but no tax on clothes, have I mentioned that I love Vermont?

To say that the drive today was really beautiful would be an understatement. From the Green Mountains of Vermont to the White Mountain region of New Hampshire, to the state of Maine, I have never seen so many life sized fake moose in my life. We even found one for sale that was very tempting, it would look great at Christmas with lights on the antlers or on the mini-golf course we plan to build when we get home. The mini-golf course will go right next to the dairy bar we are also opening to raise money to send the Kid to the University of Vermont!

We drove Route 2 most of the day from Burlington to Montpelier to St. Johnsbury to Rumford and Mexico, ME. So many neat places to stop that it would take us 5 months to get home if we did. I wish we had of stopped at the giant maple syrup tin though, that seemed too good to pass by.



All of these little places we've been to before with you. The drive to Nova Scotia from Ontario when we moved we had two cars so we followed you, you were our GPS. On this trip we have used an actual GPS which we affectionately call Richard. Richard has been doing a very good job keeping us going in the right direction, although I started to have thoughts of him leading us into the woods and getting us lost amongst the fake moose....

As we drove through each place I could hear you calling out the name of the town and if anyone wanted to stop you stopped, it didn't matter if it was every 5 minutes. For most of this trip the Kid has watched movies in the backseat. While I wish he would take in more of the scenery it was a blessing today when we passed by Santa's Village in New Hampshire. It was a winter wonderland of fun and water slides on both sides of the highway, we didn't want to stop but he's been so good in the car it would be hard to say no, what to do, what to do? We inched by, his eyes still on the movie, if this were a cartoon the car tires would have been tip-toeing, a little further...a little further...and...we made it, eyes never left the movie!

This trip is starting its wind down and we will soon be back in Canada declaring our Bath & Body Works products. Like this entire journey, the end will be bittersweet, we miss you more than ever but we are so proud of ourselves for what we have accomplished and I know you're proud too. We've learned a few things about travelling and will be that much more prepared for the next trip, like pack light to ensure you have room in the car for moose and maple syrup.

Love Poopsie