Stopped at the Hudson River Maritime Museum. We both enjoyed it. Was disappointed to discover that we could not see the Kingston lighthouse from shore. You have to go on a boat tour but we didn’t have the time. So copied picture from the website
Then we headed to the Saugerties Lighthouse. It’s now a bed and breakfast so you can’t go inside. It’s about a half mile walk to the lighthouse
Hudson River
Stopped at Olana. Home of Hudson Valley artist Frederick Church. They have a beautiful new visitor center
Drove through Hudson and discovered a park with a great view of the Hudson Athens Lighthouse. It’s currently undergoing renovations
Then we drove to Catskill and to the Point. It’s really changed over the years. Managed to get a photo of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge
Had dinner at Christina’s restaurant and it was great. Michael had spaghetti and meatballs and I had chicken parmigan sandwich. delicious. They also had fried bread dough balls in bread basket.
Our last full day in Vermont. Decided to go to Hildene – home of Robert Todd Lincoln
Observatory
Secretary’s office. Glad I never had to use this typewriter
Flowers in the gardens
Pullman car
We always stay at the Squire House in Dorset. The owners Roger and Gay are awesome. This was our 17th time
Temperatures were only in the 70s today. Went to the Dorset Theater and saw the play Salvage. It was a funny and heartwarming new play.
Really enjoyed it they have a play in July called the Book Club Play. Would like to see that but Vermont is a 7 hour drive
Another hot humid day decided to drive to Weston. Stopped at Vermont Country Store. They used to have all kinds of food to sample but no more.
The gazebo on the town green is ready for July 4th
Summer has arrived. Too hot to do much today. We did a few errands and then spent rest of day in air conditioned Inn
travel day so not much of a chance to take pictures
It’s a beautiful day in Stowe. It’s 71 degrees and we are sitting outside under the trees I checked and it’s 86 degrees at home
Another picture of the lupines
Patterns
Decided to walk on the bike path
Woke up to rain and 57 degrees. It stopped raining and sun came out in the afternoon and temperature hit 70
We headed to Honey Hollow Falls but when we got there trail was wet and overgrown so then we headed to Mt Philo state park. Along the way I saw a sign for the round church in Richmond. I put it into your GPS but we could not find it so headed to the park. We parked the car and walked to an overlook. I was disappointed but then noticed a trail so decided to walk a bit and saw signs for the summit
The park is the first state park in Vermont. View of Lake Champlain
Inn gardens at night
Beautiful day. Blue skies but it’s 86 degrees
We headed out to Sterling Gorge. Along the way we spotted an old factory alongside the road an stopped to take some pictures
Pictures above are along Sterling Gorge trail. When I looked at the map I thought we were going to go by a covered bridge on way to the gorge but we didn’t see any signs. After we left the gorge and headed back to Stowe the GPS lost its signal so we were not sure where to turn. We missed the turn but found the covered bridge.
We decided to stop in Stowe. It was really busy as there was a tour bus. We stopped in one of the galleries and saw this guitar. It can be yours for $3,000
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