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| Tiger Swallowtail on Cintonia |
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| Cherry Blossom Festival |
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| Painted Trillium |
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| Farmer Jenn at ToppNotch Farm
Pat spent most of April in York, PA with her father. He
developed pneumonia and his condition continued to deteriorate. His doctor recommended hospitalization, but
based on our experience with my father, we continued home care with steroids
treatment. Within a week he showed signs of improvement. Phil flew in to
continue the home care after Pat left. While Pat was in York, I got an MRI and
PT for my shoulder/neck problem. I am doing much better now. We did manage a
trip to DC to see the cherry blossoms. We also went to ToppNotch Farm to give
Farmer Jenn a hand for a day.
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| Rainbow Falls at Ausable Chasm |
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| White Violets |
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| Soldiers at Fort Ticonderoga
In May we headed to Lake Placid, NY where we had a timeshare
for a week. Lake Placid is famous because our rag-tag amateur Olympic hockey team
beat the professional hockey players from Russia. Makes you wonder why we now use professionals
who can’t bring home the Gold. We also spent a week camping at several state
parks in the Adirondacks. The black flies and mosquitoes were a nuisance at
times, but not bad - I’ve experienced much worse. Maybe the cold, long winter
was tough on them too. In addition to lots of hiking, we visited the Ausable
Chasm, Olympic Museum and the Adirondack Museum. At Fort Ticonderoga we learned
what a hero and great military leader Benedict Arnold was, before he switched
sides.
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| Old Mill at Jericho, VT |
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| Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal |
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| Trapp Family Lodge |
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| Spring Beauty |
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| Gnome Home |
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| Moss Glen Falls |
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| Jack in the Pulpit |
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| Shelf Fungus |
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| Sunbow |
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| Conestoga Wagon |
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| Skull at Shelburne Museum |
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| Bear Hangout
Our next timeshare
was at Smugglers Notch Resort near Stowe, VT. From here we had access to lots
of hikes within walking distance of our unit. We took a one day bus trip to
Montreal - beats driving the RV! I thought it was odd to find in the middle of
this French city of Old Montreal, an entire square and a large monument
dedicated to Lord Nelson, who soundly defeated the French Navy. I guess it was
the English way of reminding the French that the English controlled Canada. We spent an extra week in VT camping. It took two days to cover most of the
Shelburne Museum. The largest exhibit
was the Ticonderoga, a hundred year
old, 220 feet, side-paddlewheel passenger steamboat. It took us two hours to
tour this, the last commercially operating steamer on Lake Champlain. We
learned about Vermont’s role with the Underground Railroad at the Rokeby
Museum. After cruising on Lake Champlain, we took a history tour at the Trapp
Family Lodge. Maria von Trapp sold the rights to her story (The Sound of Music)
for $500. We did a self-guided tour of the state capital in Montpelier, which
is very impressive. After some hiking in NH and Camden, ME, we finished with a
rainy weekend at Acadia National Park.
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| Round Barn |
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Vermont's State Capitol
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