Family
- Breakfast at GROW Café + Bistro. 🍽
- Return shopping at Urban Found for Mazie. 🛍
- Pottery projects at Express Yourself Art Barn. 🎨
- Return visit to Roan & Black for Kimmy Cantrell mask!
- Afternoon ice cream at Blue Star Cafe! 🍦
- Afternoon in the waves and sand, lots of sand, at Oval Beach. 🏖
- Visit to one of our favorites, Salt of the Earth in Fennville for dinner. 🍽
- Pennyroyal Cafe for dessert, huh?
- 9:09a: Depart Treehouse.
- 9:22a: Enter New Hampshire!
- 9:45a: 1h 15m wait for table at Polly’s Pancake Parlor. Switch up plans.
- 9:50a: Worst coffee ever at REDACTED. 😤
- 10:40a: Flume Gorge hike. Amazing! Wow! 🤩
- 12:00p: Return to Polly’s Pancake Parlor after calling ahead this time!
- 12:30p: Seated at Polly’s.
- 1:00p: Pancakes!
- Check out downtown Littleton, NH and shopping.
- Found ourselves a bit without a plan in the late afternoon. Mazie suggested we park along the River and Tyler and her could jump around the rocks. Tammy suggested I get a coffee so I get an iced coffee, sparkling water, and a bottle of water. Dehydrated! We had a nice hour or so with our feet in the water and the kids playing.
- At the end of our tranquil River cool down time the kids were getting out and Mazie fell into a bit of water. Nothing huge, but it happened to have a pocket of baby leeches! When she stood up we though she had algae on her legs, but they were actually baby leeches and she justifiably FREAKED OUT! We spent the next bunch of time clearing centimeter long baby leeches off her legs and calming her down. Whew!
- Delightful dinner at Schilling Beer Co.
- Tyler: 3 OREO Pancakes.
- Mazie: Buckwheat chocolate chip, Oatmeal buttermilk blueberry, Gingerbread walnut.
- Tammy: OREO Pancake, Corn and Coconut, Oatmeal buttermilk chocolate chip.
- Jamie: Buckwheat blueberry, Corn with coconut, Gingerbread with walnuts
- Breakfast pastry stop at Saunderskill Farms.
- Rented bikes in New Paltz and ride the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail.
- Lunch at Lola’s in New Paltz.
- Tour of Historic Huguenot Street.
- Ice cream at Sleeping Giant in Kerhonkson.
- Return to Modern Accord Depot to enjoy our final night here.
- @artblocks_io has done 5,570E ($13M) in the last 24hrs, up 401%, primarily driven by @tylerxhobbs Fidenza project
- Two CryptoPunk zombies purchased for 700 & 850 ETH ($1.72M & $2.09M). The next available zombie is 1.23KE or $3.71M. There are only 88 zombies in total
- Gary Vee buys rare CryptoPunk Ape for 1,600 ETH ($3,764,576.17 USD), this triggers a CryptoPunk buying frenzy
- I picked up a badass a 1/1 XCOPY (🏆 grail for me)
Varmont Road Trip Index
In the spirit of Harper’s Index, here is our index for the Vermont Road Trip.
Airbnbs stayed in: Five
Miles driven: 3,777
Spent on gasoline: $475.70
State border crossings: 19
Road Sign Math winners found: Ten.
Miles of Appalachian trail hiked: One mile, twice.
Cheeseburgers Tyler ate: 10
Ratio of all Cheeseburgers that Tyler ate: 10 of 18.
Count of boats on: Four.
Floathaus,
Sailboat,
Canal cruise,
Donut boat
Ice cream shops: Nine.
Photos taken: 2,958
Percent of photos taken by Jamie: 54%
Count of books purchased: Nine.
Number of towns visited: 20
Accord,
Albany,
Cleveland,
Douglas,
Fennville,
Hoosick Falls,
Kingston,
Littleton,
Manchester,
Montpelier,
New Paltz,
Pittsford,
Rochester,
Saratoga,
Saugatuck,
Shaftsbury,
St. Johnsbury,
Woodstock (NY),
Woodstock (VT)
Museums visited: Five.
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium,
Historic Huguenot Street,
Woodstock / Bethel Woods Center for the Arts,
Hildene,
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Count of clothes Mazie bought: Five.
Ratio of clothing purchases by Mazie: 5 of 7.
Number of baby Leeches on Mazie's legs: Over one hundred
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Best Ice Cream of Vermont Road Trip
On our drive back we went back and each of us picked the favorite ice cream we had on our Vermont Road Trip. It was interesting to me that we all picked a different place!
Mazie: Key Lime Pie at Sleeping Giant on Day 4.
Tammy: Mint Chocolate Chip at Kilwins on Day 14.
Tyler: Sea Monster at Charlie’s Around the Corner on Day 13.
Jamie: Peanut Butter Chunk at Greater’s on Day 1.
Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 15, Saturday
Weather: Perfect.
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Express Yourself Art Barn
We love to visit Express Yourself Art Barn when we are in Saugatuck. They have a ton of great projects and the people that run it create a great space and are incredibly helpful. We decided to all do pottery painting today. Tammy and I did three decorative lanterns in various rainbow effects, Mazie made her own garden stakes, and Tyler decided to do a Turtle Bank!
We have to have them shipped back to us. Hopefully everything makes it in tact! 🤞
Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 10, Monday
Weather: Nice, clear day. A bit hot in the afternoon with temps nearly 90 °F.
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Polly’s Pancake Parlor was delicious and the busiest place we’ve eaten at on our trip, by a long shot. 🥞
Flume Gorge
This morning we drove from St. Johnsbury over to New Hampshire for the day. Our first event of the day was an amazing 2+ mile hike to see the Flume Gorge. Due to COVID-19 they were requiring tickets and timed entries. When we got there people were actually queued up to get in which seemed surprising to me. As we made our way up the gorge I realized why this was such a popular hike. The route was stunning, which immaculate paths and great wooden staircases going right up inside the gorge itself! I kept wondering what this must be like in the Spring when so much more water must be going down it.
The pictures below are in order as you start at the bottom of the gorge and hike up further until the waterfall at the very beginning of the gorge.
At the bottom of the gorge the water spreads out over this broad granite.
Family photo towards the bottom of the gorge.
Here the gorge is coming out of the boulders and starting to go more vertical.
Crossing one of several bridges as we walk along either side of the gorge.
The elaborate walkways and stairs are impressive to take you directly up the gorge.
Stairs going up through a narrow passage in the gorge.
My favorite photo from inside the gorge with all the lush greens and the walkways.
Family selfie with the falls at the top in the background.
Tammy and Mazie in front of the falls at the top.
Inside covered bridge crossing the Pemigewasset River.
Covered bridge above the pool along the Pemigewasset River.
Here is our walking path totaling 2.3 miles.
Dog Mountain Chapel
When Tammy was researching our Vermont Trip she ran across a place called Dog Mountain just outside of St. Johnsbury, VT. Dog Mountain is a 150 acre private mountaintop spot created by Stephen Huneck and his wife Gwen, as a place for people and dogs to enjoy themselves. Unfortunately we don’t have Lucky with us on this trip, but we still wanted to visit Dog Mountain to check it out.
One of the special places on Dog Mountain is the Chapel. In the Chapel people place photos and notes on the walls to honor the dogs that they have had to say goodbye to. It was an amazing spot, and when Mazie took a pen and put a note on the wall for Chase it made me shed a fresh tear for our great dog that we had to say goodbye to in 2018.
Bread and Puppet Theater
I don’t know if we would have ever found Bread and Puppet Theater without a recommendation from our friend Ellen but it was well worth the additional drive to Glover, VT. Bread and Puppet has been putting on political theater since 1974 in this location. The performances feature funny and serious skits, people on stilts and giant flags, and of course puppets of all sizes and shapes.
The “stage” and the band warming everyone up for the show.
A flag performance.
The turkey skit was the funniest of the show.
Giant puppet that was part of the Domestic Resurrection Circus after the main event.
Mazie and I got some bread with a heavy garlic butter shmear.
Why do they serve bread with the theater?
“We give you a piece of bread with the puppet show because our bread and theater belong together. For a long time the theater arts have been separated from the stomach. Theater was entertainment. Entertainment was meant for the skin. Bread was meant for the stomach. The old rites of baking, eating and offering bread were forgotten. The bread became mush. We would like you to take your shoes off when you come to our puppet show or we would like to bless you with the fiddle bow. The bread shall remind you of the sacrament of eating.” — Peter Schumann
I also enjoyed the spirit of the Cheap Art Manifesto.
Pastime Pinball
If you are any kind of a fan of pinball, Pastime Pinball would be your heaven. There is an amazing collection of pinball machines over the years, and they are all maintained perfectly. Everything works, and the game play is just as it was meant to be. They even had one of my favorite machines from my youth, Cyclone. And my favorite one that I played there was the Metallica Pro machine.
Tyler playing one of the older pinball machines..
Historical pinball section, all in great working condition.
Royal Flush pinball machine with clear acrylic case.
Modern pinball section.
Afternoon ice cream at Cold Cow Creamery. Tyler opted for a Blondie bar from a coffee shop instead. The Maple Shake was tremendous.
Alpine Slide at Bromley
In my head Alpine Slides look dangerous. There is no good reason for that. Visually they look like a luge track and it makes me think of people on bobsleds going at insane speeds. Now having done it, this analogy seems utterly ridiculous, but that is what was in my head. When Tammy put the Alpine Slides at Bromley Mountain on our plan for the day I was anxious.
Mazie, Tyler and I were all first timers on the Alpine Slide. Shortly after getting going I realized this was all just a bunch of fun. The slide was very long and had a ton of fun turns. As a bonus, the chair lift ride up was gorgeous as well. Mazie had a blast and would have gone a dozen more times. Tyler got into the groove of it after a while too.
Saratoga Racetrack
We went to the horse track today! 💸
We’ve been to Canterbury Park with the kids and have had fun. Saratoga however is much, much bigger. It took us a while to just figure out where to go and sit. Then it took us a while to figure out how to read everything and understand how it all worked. But, after a bit we mostly got the hang of it. By the end I felt confident to go up to the betting stands and say stuff like “$10 on 5 to place”. Careful reading of the program was a big help.
Our bets for the day. We only had two winners. I made an epic bad on on Race 6 after getting enamored with the idea of an “Across the Board” bet, which is actually three bets in one: one to win, one to place, and one to show. I thought the bet divided amongst them but it actually multiplies, so I ended up betting three times what I thought. Ooops. And that horse was absolutely terrible in that race, coming in last by several lengths.
We had a super fun time and it was cool to be at such a historic race track.
Race 5
Tyler bet on Swinging sticks to place.
Mazie bet on Magnificent Chrome to place.
Race 6
Mazie bet on 9 to show.
Tyler bet on 5 to show. Winner!
Jamie made a terrible bet on 1 “across the board”.
Race 7
Tyler bet on Mystery Bank to show.
Mazie bet on Land Biscuit to show.
Mazie bet on Mister Kringle to show. Winner!
Tammy bet on Life on Top to win.
Jamie bet on Landbiscuit 7 to place.
Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 4, Tuesday
Weather: Perfect.
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Recent NFT Activity
This block of updates from today’s Modern Finance newsletter on recent activity around NFTs blew me away.
Here are some fun NFT stats from the last few days:
I continue to see a lot of potential for NFTs, well beyond just the collectible space. However, it seems that the collectibles are a huge deal on their own.
Tyler created a cairn of his own at the site of the Woodstock stage. He even added a little flower to it.`
Tyler and I have been enjoying watching Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Good story.
Mazie made a nice homemade sign for delivery people to grab a Clif Bar when they drop off a package. 💛🙏
Mazie harvested lettuce from the garden today. I have no idea what we will do with this many greens! 🥬 😳
