Four days. No plans.
The highlights:
A lazy drive on Hwy 7 through Vermont and Massachusetts.
A visit to The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, MA from 1902 until 1911.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail from the Goose Pond trailhead.
Rhubarb and ginger ice cream at High Lawn Farm.
Cooling down in the afternoons with a swim.
Dinner at The Station Gastropub.
Pastries at The Lost Lamb Patisserie.
After dressing up for the Breakthrough T1D Capital Region Gala, Jill and I spent a weekend wandering and relaxing in Albany and southern Vermont. I’d never seen the Empire State Plaza, so we started there with a walk, then got back in the car and drove up through Bennington and Ludlow to Mt. Ascutney, where we stayed a couple of nights. We’re all about the food, and we hit Zoey’s Deli in Manchester (5/5 would eat there again in a heartbeat), Blake Hill and Sugarbush Farm for dinner picnic ingredients, Simon Pearce to watch glass blowing (fascinating and worth the stop) and eat a fancy lunch (they do magical things with burrata–the rest of the food was okay), and the Windsor Diner (excellent for breakfast).
Three bonus shopping spots: Post. (I could empty my wallet there on pens and notebooks) and Little Istanbul Gifts (spices!) in White River Junction and The Yankee Bookshop (well-selected books and snooty Woodstock clientele make for serious entertainment).
