Day 35--Jericho, VT

Day 35—July 16
Acadia NP to Jericho, VT
329 miles

We drove up to Bangor to catch I-95, took it to Hwy 2, and then cut through Maine, NH and VT on it, picking up I-89 not too far from Peter and Sonja’s. Another dazzlingly green day from the car. It is heartening to see so much undeveloped country. Uplifting to be in the mountains.

My cell is dead, so I called Sonja on Suz’s cell from just outside Montpelier. We arrived at their house in Jericho, northeast of Burlington, about 30 or 40 minutes later at about 4:30 pm.

Not long before we got there, we took a little side trip and stopped in Cabot at the Cabot Cheese Factory to buy a large piece of sharp cheese for me to take to the reunion. I bought Jeff a small triangle of sharp off a wheel and some maple/ginger marinade. I also bought a cheese box and Suz bought three cheese boxes.

When we got to P & S’s we left all the stuff in the car, first greeting the bro and making introductions. Almost immediately, Sonja and Suz were out in the lower garden talking gardening. Peter and I joined them once we’d carried all the bags and stuff from the car to the front porch and got the food safely in the fridge. 

P & S have a small new greenhouse of the same construction Lucy and I had looked longingly at. They had just finished weeding both their gardens which had grown tremendously during their trip to Costa Rica.

Peter, Sonja, & Suz with the Volvo in the background

After the garden tour, while Suz caught up on her e-mail at the kitchen table, Sonja made a sausage, tomato, green pepper sauce to put on pasta, and I set the table and put together a green salad out of the garden, as well as helped make a fruit salad of honeydew melon, cantaloupe, cherries, and blueberries (from P & S’s big bush). Some bread for Suz and we were happy campers.

After dinner, Peter helped get our luggage downstairs and Suz went to bed. I got some loving in on the two cats (Spook and Rajah), helped clean up the dishes and kitchen, threw Suz’s and my dirty clothes in the washer, talked with Sonja a bit as she knit a Norwegian-patterned sweater for Brian, transferred the washed clothes to the dryer, and finally fell into bed . . . and lay awake until after midnight.