Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Days 30/36 - South Hero, Vermont

South Hero is an island in the middle of lake Champlain with New York on the west and Vermont on the east. We are only 25 miles from the Canadian border. We picked this location to just back off and relax for a week before heading into Canada. The lake is beautiful but we've been having some really rainy weather. Looks like that will change tomorrow. I don't want to tell you that the island is back woods but we asked where we could go to get a hamburger for lunch and this is where we were sent because it has a water view. Dump but not a bad hamburger.
We went out and visited a vineyard on the island. We were surprised they even had one but not only do they but the wines aren't bad at all. They have several 'Wine Spectator' awards.
Down the road a bit is the home of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. We toured the plant and had some ice cream. The story of Ben & Jerry is a true American success story of two guys, who were basically failures, that hit on a winning idea. Now they are mega millionaires. And we had to choose video!

Back to the small world idea...Our campground is run by people from North Port, Florida, which is very close to us. They knew our club and had played golf there.