I had 2 choices today. We were in the middle -10 min drive either way - hiking up the mountain, or checking out down town. Our tour guide is proving to be pretty useless, so I had to do my own research. I spent the morning looking at the map and googling Stowe and the hiking trails on the mountain to see if there were any easy ones and researching the gondola ride up to the top. I chose to go check out the mountain. We were supposed to meet at 10am to make br...

We had a late start today. Meeting time was 10am, so slept in till around 8.30 and had brekky at the hostel. Never pass up a free brekky when travelling! And always take a little something for the road...like a banana. We headed off and drove for only about an hour when we had to stop to go through customs and I had to shovel down my banana as you're not supposed to take fruit across the border. We drove another couple of hours into Vermont and played Uno whi...