Woke up to a dreary morning, it had rained overnight and the humidity had remained. The place we stayed at last night was great, more like a “real” hotel than a motel, but still at motel prices.
We headed out of Stowe and took a cross country route to St Albans. This took up a fairly narrow and twisty road over Mt. Mansfield where we climbed to around 2000 ft.
Our first stop was a quilting machine store where Lyn wanted to try out a Long Arm Quilting Machine (calm down Vickie!, for others if you want to know what one of these is speak to Lyn!). The store obviously sold high end stuff, as Lyn needed physical support when she asked the price. Problem is she seems to have fallen in love with that type of machine after playing with one.
We headed around the top of Lake Champlain to another store, and more play time for Lyn. Next stop was Ogdensburg, for me to pick up my toys, then over the border to home.
We traveled just over 3500km (~2200 miles) through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Maine, New Hampshire Vermont and New York. This was our first trip in our new car, and I was blown away with the fuel consumption. The truck gave us around 11.5 MPG with the trailer or around 20MPG without it. Our old car gave around 30 MPG average All MPG relate to US Gallons). The new car averaged 44 MPG (53 MPG British Gallons) and on the trip back driving around 85-90 kph we were getting 51 MPG (61 MPG British). Add to this the fact that we were given a gas card with the car that gave us 30% off fuel our fuel bill was minimum! (Most of the above was for my info, but you get to read it as well!)
PEI was amazing, we tend not to be city tourists but “scenery” tourists, and PEI was great for that. The place was green (both colour and recycling wise), laid back and there was an unbelievable pride in ownership showing for 99.9% of the houses we past. All lawns were very well kept, house all in good repair etc.
Overall a good break for 10 days, now we have to wait until January for our next vacation. The blog should start up again around Jan 14th.