Woke up to a sunny day. We didnt' spend much time in Lake Placid. Here is a quick pick from the road of the ski jump training facility. I always thought that would be a scary thing to do and after seeing these ramps, I'm convinced.
We are trying to find one geocache in each state. Our New York find was in Elizabethtown in this very neat Colonial Garden. I am sure it is even prettier in the summer when all the flowers are blooming.
Our route across Lake Champlain was via ferry. It was only a 15 minute crossing. The old Lake Champlain bridge was demolished and they are building a new one, scheduled to open later this year.
The drive across the Green Mountains was just gorgeous. Really hard to describe all the wonderful colors and I don't think the pictures do it justice.
A bit of a side detour took us through the Northfield area where we saw three covered bridges in addition to this one we saw earlier:
There is only one place in Vermont you can see two covered bridges at the same time and that is in the Northfield area and so it was neat to see those as well.
Our next stop was the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory Tour. Honestly, we were not impressed. We had been enjoying the peaceful nature of New England and wondering where all the people are......well, we found them at Ben & Jerry's! That place was insane. And to top it off they were in between flavor changes and so we didn't actually get to see ice cream being made. We got a free sample of ice cream but since the line to buy ice cream seemed to extend clear back to Washington State we decided to move on. If you are a real Ben & Jerry's fan you would probably enjoy this. If not, I would not recommend taking the time.
Our next tour was a bit more successful. We did the granite quarry tour at Rock of Ages. They are mainly in the memorial stone business but the quarry was amazing. They are sitting on a quarry of granite that is approximately 52 square miles and extends 50 miles beneath the surface. If they continue to quarry granite at their current rate they will not exhaust the supply for another
4, 500 years. Here is a couple pictures of the quarry. Our only disappointment here was that the workers had already finished their day so we didn't get to see the actual work being done.
The color of granite is completely dependent on the area in which it is quarried. Barre VT granite is gray. The nearby Hope Cemetary will now only allow memorial monuments made from the Barre granite. This cemetary has extremely personal and creative headstones. Here are just a couple examples:
After the cemetary our main goal was to get to our hotel in Bartlett New Hampshire. The drive is very enjoyable with neat views around every corner.
Well, it is time to start planning tomorrow's adventures and then off to get some sleep.
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