Day 5 – On to greener pastures… (aka golf)

Another travel day, mostly. After all, we are trying to slowly make it to Canada, so that’s why we left NYC in the morning and –fortified with Bagels (+schmear)– embarked on another 5 hour drive, this time to Northern Vermont.

The amazing resort which shall remain nameless

Ahhhh! Fresh, cool, quiet beauty

This restaurant certainly knew how to turn things upside down

Bill had located a great place to stop over: a culinary resort with a spa (hello massage!!!) and golf. And because it is 5 hours from NYC it wasn’t the usual overpriced and/or overhyped site, but a sweet & honest spot just outside of Burlington (the Asheville of Vermont) – though more than that I won’t tell you, especially not what it’s called, because I don’t want the word to get out that getting spoiled on a working person’s budget is still possible. Sorry. This is our family secret now.

Conveniently, it had rained just before we got there, so the air was both incredibly fresh and cool – a great relief after the previous, major heat advisory day in NYC. Strolling along Lake Champlain in Burlington we didn’t get to see Champ, but the views were stunning enough without sighting a legendary creature and we did find something else: Creemees!!! Somewhere between a soft ice and a regular ice-cream, these treats are definitely the stuff of legend…