Tiger Tracks: Camping de la Joie

After a walk around the beautiful grounds of Rivers Bend, we headed north to Burlington, Vermont. We were here 20 years ago for a conference and remember the place fondly. It is a charming college community situated on Lake Champlain. It has history and beautiful views and the attractions one expects of a college community—good coffee, shops, and cultural activities. We took advantage with a stop at Healthy Living, an enormous health food store. To amuse themselves and befuddle the shoppers, the owners laid out the store in a large figure eight. It is very difficult to find anything or to keep track of your partner (we used our cell phones). But it is a fabulous store, and we provisioned with healthy and organic bread, cheese, sausage, fruit and vegetables. They also had a great selection of wine—a first for me in a health food store.

We walked through the pedestrian center and along a park with a view of the waterfront and lake. It should have been more fun but the humidity and the heat were high and I was dyin', We opted to continue north.

We had a lovely lunch at the salmon hole with a beautiful view of a river from a park bench.

We continued north to Québec City. The province of Québec looks a bit shabby—and there is very little English. The remainder of Canada is bilingual but Québec is staunchly French. It is the only place we have been (and we have traveled in Belgium and France) where the stop signs say “arrêt” rather than “stop.”