Button Bay, Vergennes, VT
Biked 22 miles
Today we finally got in a ride. We ate a leisurely breakfast and then donned our bike duds and rode 11.5 miles down Button Bay Road, which is also the Champlain Bikeway. It felt great to be on a bicycle again, particularly as I found a solution to my tailbone pain last night—four Ibuprofen and an Advil. By the time we’d finished breakfast, I was moving with more ease and less discomfort than I have been since my fall.
On our ride, we stopped at two different old cemeteries and also took several photos of the vistas and farms and farmhouses. We stopped at 11.5 miles because there was a general store at this junction—the only commercial place we’d encountered on this lovely rolling ride.
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| Near treeless McMansion with acres of mowed lawn on the Lake Champlain shore; its only redeeming factor the builder's attempt to make it look old by copying the style of most VT farmhouses: hooking all the buildings together so that one can get from the house to barn (in this case garage) without having to go out in the snow |
Feeling full and happy, we bicycled back to the campsite with the wind at our backs. I would have been content to cycle all day, but we needed certain supplies, so around noon we took off for Williston. Before leaving, I took another dose of painkillers. Too soon, I think, as I got very woozy and sleepy. Had to ask Suz to take over the driving.
We stopped in Vergennes and Suz, a rock hound, scoured the small nearby beach for some of Lake Champlain's Zebra stones. She found plenty to fill her pockets, and I picked up a perfect heart stone to carry back to Jeff.
We also stopped at the Kennedy Brothers Factory, but it it is housed in a modern brick building and sells only touristy stuff now, and not the beautiful maple bowls that it sold back when I went to school in VT. Nevertheless, Suz bought a cherry bowl for Jim and a couple of spools and odds and ends. Then we stopped at the Vermont Wildflower Farm and bought some seeds.
It took us forever to find the Williston WalMart. It was hidden behind some other buildings and did not have the large sign that it does in other places . . . this is very nice now that I think about it. Suz needed to buy a duffel bag for her camping gear and we both bought a pillow. Suz has to be careful because she broke her neck years ago and still gets neck/headaches if she doesn’t align it correctly at night, and my pillow isn’t large enough. I wanted to buy some body wash as I’d left mine at Hansi’s. Suz bought a new pair of long pants also.
We also stopped at the Kennedy Brothers Factory, but it it is housed in a modern brick building and sells only touristy stuff now, and not the beautiful maple bowls that it sold back when I went to school in VT. Nevertheless, Suz bought a cherry bowl for Jim and a couple of spools and odds and ends. Then we stopped at the Vermont Wildflower Farm and bought some seeds.
It took us forever to find the Williston WalMart. It was hidden behind some other buildings and did not have the large sign that it does in other places . . . this is very nice now that I think about it. Suz needed to buy a duffel bag for her camping gear and we both bought a pillow. Suz has to be careful because she broke her neck years ago and still gets neck/headaches if she doesn’t align it correctly at night, and my pillow isn’t large enough. I wanted to buy some body wash as I’d left mine at Hansi’s. Suz bought a new pair of long pants also.
On our way back to the campsite it clouded over darkly and began to rain. We decided that we would rent a cabin there if it was not too expensive. But, when we got to the campgrounds, no one was on duty and there was no way to change our overnight reservations.
Our camp dinner between the raindrops this evening was rice, cheese, tuna again, and Caesar salad.
Slept a bit better, but the pillow I bought is too soft, and it poured all night.
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| Dinner over, we made peanut butter sandwiches for tomorrow's drive |
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