New Hampshire to Vermont

Today we drove up to Burlington through endless trees along roads that had often been blasted out of rocky hills. The extent of the tree cover is quite amazing, there are an awful lot of trees in this part of the world as well as lakes. We passed through small settlements, but we are well away from the endless suburbs of sea side Connecticut. We stopped at one lakeshore place for a walk and looked at a local real estate free paper and the most expensive house we found was 9 million dollars. Some other of the places we drove through were much more low rent than that though. We drove across the longest covered bridge in the world and would have seen more such historic crossings but were turned back by the police because a tree had fallen on the electricity cable and there was a fire!No sooner had we turned around than a cable broke right above us and there was a shower of sparks and Paul put his foot down and we got out quick! We stopped for a coffee in Montpelier ('a small town with a big heart' and the State capital) next to a pavement table with two guys discussing politics, one of whom was the State Senator. We know this as a passer by said 'congrats Senator you're doing a great job' which immediately provoked a less favourable remark from the next passer by. Well you win some and you lose some, all in a days work for a Senator who left to get back to the State House with its impressive golden dome. Onto the Quality Inn, almost a lake view and its warm and humid. Brian and Tess