Vermont 2018

We left New Hampshire for Vermont and traveled the Kancamagus Highway. 

Approximately 4 miles down the road. We had a tire lose its' tread and damaged the side of the trailer.

Jim changed the tire and we were on our way again.
There were wild turkeys everywhere!

Vermont has many beautiful covered bridges.

We were able to travel across a few without the rig of course.

We visited the Simon Pearce Glass Blowing and Restaurant in Quechee, VT.

The plant is hydro powered and has its own hydro generator in the basement powered by the waterfall.

 

Dessert

Some of the tools of the trade.

This is what was being made the day we visited.

This is the formula for their glass.

The glassware was beautiful but beyond my pocketbook.

We traveled over to the Quechee Gorge.  It was beautiful!

Over to the Sugarbush Maple Farm.
Of course, there are farm animals.

This farm is where we bought our cheese and syrup.

This measuring stick recorded the record snowfalls of the past.

Maple production barn.

On to the Long Trail Brewery

Looks like they are in a hurry!

New Hampshire 2018

In New Hampshire, we had a couple of friends come along, Jim and Martha Abernathy and Wally and Sharon Huber.

I found this at the welcome center stop! There are signs everywhere to watch out for moose crossing the roads.

 We were grateful to have friends along on this leg of the trip. The intercooler outlet pipe blew and we lost turbo power on the truck, and without the turbo, it was tough pulling the rig up a hill. Once we made it to the campground on Sunday, we took the truck over to the Ford Dealership for repairs. It was an awkward feeling without the truck and depending on our friends for transportation.

Monday morning, we made sure the dealership got the part ordered and we continued with our plans to go to Mount Washington, New Hampshire.  

We took the cog railway to the summit on a steam-powered train.

That's our brakeman photobombing the picture. 

 

That's the elevation at the start of the railway

Here we are with Wally and Sharon on our way up.

The sign is level, we aren't.

This is the train at the summit shrouded in the clouds.

Wally and Sharon

Us at the summit.  It was a mild 50 degrees with a 53 mile an hour wind.

This was once a hotel at the summit.

The highest wind speed recorded by man of 231 MPH was recorded here.

The weather station on the summit.  The clouds would blow in and the visibility would drop.  A short time later, it would clear up. 

That is a ski area in the distance.

The scenery was beautiful.

You can see another train following us back down the mountain.

This is our Brakeman, Eli

And our engineer.

The next day, Wally, Sharon, and Vickie went on an adventure to Diana's Baths.

Sharon even got her feet wet!

Then the three of us went over to Cathedral Ledge.

When we arrived, there was a guy getting ready to rappel down the face of the ledge.

That's just about as close as I'm going to get to rappelling.

The view from here was beautiful.

We traveled to the base of the cliff and could look back up and see the guy climbing down.

Time to get some refreshments!

Wally and Sharon had to leave for home but I liked Sea Dog Brewing so much, I brought Jim as well as Jim and Martha back for dinner!

The next morning, Jim and Martha left for Vermont and our part for the truck was not in yet. So we rented a car for transportation until our truck was ready for us to travel on to Vermont.