Tiger Tracks: Rules Rules Rules

We took our time leaving Boston. We were ready to be out of the parking lot of Lizzie’s apartment building but so grateful that the super permitted us to stay here. There really are no campgrounds in this area, and we would not have been able to stay this long if we needed to commute or find a hotel. We did make one last stop in Cambridge. I wanted to go to Harvard Bookstore for a book that is unavailable on Kindle. The book is “When in Rome” by Robert Hutchinson, an irreverent and fun look at life in Vatican City. It's a lot of fun and good preparation for our trip to Rome next month.

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We drove north to New Hampshire and took a route we took several times when Emily was a student at Dartmouth. We did not stop in Hanover, however, although we were tempted to return to Lou’s, a great coffee shop there. We did stop at a sad excuse for a rest area—featuring a state liquor store with tax free booze.

We crossed the Connecticut River to White River Junction, Vermont, and headed north toward Burlington. We stopped at a Vermont rest area. which was really lovely. Not only did it have lots of traveler information, it had fresh coffee, a park, and a really beautiful tribute to veterans of the Viet Nam war and a memorial in progress to the local folks who have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq—the first such memorial I have seen. It predates the wall in Washington D.C. and credits itself with being the first Viet Nam soldiers memorial.

We stopped at a TI in Middlebury, and picked up brochures for the local campgrounds. We rejected the one in the brochure promising lively fun and featuring Polynesian dancers (in rural Vermont?), and chose instead Rivers Bend—a really lovely campground whose owner keeps the camping population under strict control.