With Jane we continued our northern Vermont explorations on twisting roads up to the famed Smuggler’s Notch that we first learned about on Smithsonian’s Aerial America. We loved doing a bit climbing around on the rocks and imagining smugglers in days of old hiding booty from Canada in these caves. The interpretative sign mentioned smuggling during the War of 1812 but we fully expect that Canadian spirits made their way through here during Prohibition. Jane had no problem negotiating the tight hairpin turns but we could see how big rigs and oversized campers that ignore the warning signs can get trapped! As we headed south we paused in Jericho, hometown of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, one of the first persons to photograph snowflakes beginning in 1885. The museum in the Chittenden Mill was closed for the day but that didn’t prevent us from exploring Old Mill Park on the Brownie River!
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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