Vermont pt 1

SO after Montreal there was Burlington, Vermont, a college town way nicer looking than the Ontario franchise. We didn't know where we were staying that night but we wandered around the pedestrian mall and surrounding area asking where's good to lodge. We were browsing a camping equipment shop  and asking the staff questions about good secret camping sites when the girlfriend of an employee suddenly invited us to stay with them. The look on her face said she was as surprised as we were. Luckily her boyfriend just smiled, shrugged, and rolled with it.

They were Bianca and Lee, and they took us to their house on a mountain that they share with a few other young Vermonters. Not in the habit of taking in strays, Bianca just had a good feeling about us and couldn't think of a reason not to have us over, which is some crazy luck on our part. She cooked us an amazing dinner involving some home-raised chickens, and we showed them how to play the "Picture Game", a cross between Telephone and Pictionary very popular with my bros and broettes.

We drank and ate and watched a blue graph bar race a red graph bar. The size of each bar, especially relative to each other, was the source of great anxiety for everyone. We all knew that these bars would determine many things about the world. As we all know, the blue bar won, and everyone on that mountain was happy.

The next morning, Bianca and Lee took us for a hike around their property, and we caught a view of the valleys and the mountains capped with snow that make Vermont THE place for winter sport enthusiasts. My enthusiasm for winter sport ended when my face met a fence at the bottom of a black diamond hill in grade 7, so I appreciated the snow from a distance.

We exchanged facebook info and said goodbye to our amazing hosts, and drove further south to WWOOF on a farm. WWOOFing is an acronym, and it boils down to working temporarily for room and board at an organic farm. As happy as we were to hang up our farming hats at the end of October, it turns out I missed the ridiculous food enough to get dirty again. Pictures and more to come!