Woke up this morning to rain drops hitting the metal roof of our RV. It was a light rain but still it was disappointing to hear. Today’s plan is to visit the state capital city and the birthplace of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. After breakfast, I checked the weather forecast, it is supposed to be a high of a cool 72 and rain all day. The forecast blamed Hurricane/Tropical Storm Isaias racing through the area.
After an hours drive we landed in the state capital city of Montpelier. A small city of 8000. It is the smallest capital city in America but it is the oldest and best preserved of our nation state capitols. Between the flurry of rain, we manage to walk around the capitol and downtown. We did not enter the capitol, it looked closed. But downtown was lively and the store fronts were like when I was a kid doing our shopping downtown.
The rain pickup and we were forced to move on. Ten miles north of Montpelier is Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory and headquartered in Waterbury Vermont. When we got to the parking lot it was empty which was a bad sign.
We found the Flavor Graveyard open. Many of the flavors that met their demise were ones that I though were great! Oh well, so much for my taste!
The next day we visited Quechee Gorge. It’s a popular destination for vacationers. We walked the spanning bridge and hiked the trail that followed the river. There were many hikers and it was good to see that they all wore mask like us.
Fifteen minutes from our campsite is King Arthur Flour headquartered in Norwich Vermont. King Arthur has been the flour of choice for Denise over the years of her baking. For her, this was truly a bucket-list stop.
