Day Drives in Vermont - Simon Pearce
The 'One and Only Brattleboro' is a destination in and of itself, but the icing on the cake is that it is within a couple hours of, well, basically everything! Montreal and New York City are both about four hours away. Two and a half hours gets you to the Maine coast. Two hours gets you to Boston...though why you'd want to drive there, I haven't the foggiest... (The traffic - I'm talking about the traffic - Go Sox....) As the innkeeper I am (by choice) semi-chained to this old house, but I find pockets of time here and there to play hooky, and when that happens I almost inevitably end up jumping in the car and taking a road I've never taken before to explore the treasures within a two hour radius of Brattleboro. Yesterday I treated myself to lunch. In Quechee... sitting at a window seat overlooking a covered bridge...and water roaring over a dam... sipping wine out of a sparkling blown glass goblet. Sigh. I'm such a romantic. The dining room at ...