Full disclosure: If I were to truly write about my dream tonight it would have to do not with adventures or scenery or roaming with my children. After logging 3700 miles and six weeks of travel this summer I returned to a house in desperate need of …
Mondays are for dreaming: Mont Saint-Michel
August 23, 2009 3 reader comments
As summer winds down and I get the children ready to return to school, I often feel nostalgic for my own school days. Today I'm thinking of the fall 19 years ago, which I spent in Paris. It was my junior year of college and I was ostensibly there to …
Summer treasures: 111 and counting
August 18, 2009 9 reader comments
So we're going home to Delaware tomorrow, after three weeks in Vermont. The car will be loaded with all of our gear and bicylces plus a gallon of maple syrup and loads of new books purchased for a quarter apiece at the library sale at the Waitsfield …
Mondays are for dreaming: A country fair
August 16, 2009 3 reader comments
Ever since Tommy saw the Summer 2009 issue of Vermont Life, which contained a photographic essay about summer fairs, he's wanted to go to one. It may well have been the cover photo of the magazine that seized his imagination, showing as it did a …
Miniature golf with a view – Vermont style
August 14, 2009 9 reader comments
Tommy loves to pick up those tourist maps that have cute sayings and pictures of the businesses that advertise drawn on them. Since these will occupy him for some time in the car, I always let him grab them when we're traveling. This can have …
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