Early Autumn in Vermont
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On Wednesday, this city mouse took a long drive outside my natural habitat up into Vermont.
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First stop was a step back in time at the enormous Vermont Country Store, where I sampled sweet fudge and bitter cider.
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From there, my companion and I travelled north-by-northwest past churches and farms and white houses and bed-and-breakfasts. Vermont is not Vegas; it isn’t even Colonial Williamsburg. Its charm is child-like, endearing in its guilelessness. There are no billboards. I don’t think we saw a building higher than four stories. Everything is close to the ground in Vermont.
Everything, that is, except the mountains and the trees. The full glory of Fall was still a few weeks away, but the promise was there in strokes of gold and dottings of red.
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We did see rich color on Lake Champlain, sparkling blue in the sunshine of the warm late-summer day.
If you’re looking for excitement, don’t go to Vermont.
If your life is exciting already and you’re looking for a place to slow down for a bit amid spectacular natural beauty, go in a couple of weeks.
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