{"id":2485,"date":"2018-09-16T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2018-09-16T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:46:23","slug":"another-wonderful-drive-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"Another wonderful drive in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday Sep 16, 2018<\/h3>\n

Map and road video – Killington to Barre, VT via Burlington<\/a><\/p>\n

In my opinion, today’s drive was even more scenic than yesterday’s as I headed further north along Vermont scenic byway 100 and then cut back west across the Green Mountains on scenic 125. This section is more open so you can see the mountains instead of just the forest. The only stop I made in this section was at Texas Falls<\/em> where the Texas Brook drops 35 feet in three stages. Having seen green mountains this time, I hope to see red, gold and yellow mountains when I return in about three weeks.<\/p>\n

My main stop of the day was at Shelburne Museum<\/em>. This is a very difficult museum to describe; the official tag line is “Over 150,000 works in 39 exhibition buildings” or, unofficially, “a collection of collections” but it had rave reviews so I had to see it for myself. I would describe it as almost anything and everything made or used in Vermont. Its collections include sculptures, pottery, paintings, firearms, carriages, bird decoys, dolls, trains, buildings, farm and construction equipment, printing presses, quilts and so much more as well as\u00a0 a covered bridge and The Ticonderoga<\/em> paddle boat that used to ferry passengers along Lake Champlain. A fascinating place.<\/p>\n

My next planned stop was at Waterfront Park<\/em> in Burlington but it was a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and there were no parking spots to be had within 5 blocks so I headed back east to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory<\/em> in Waterbury for a tour. Even though this was on an interstate highway it was very scenic and relaxing.<\/p>\n

The “tour” consists of an eight minute video history of the company, about 10 minutes of looking down on the factory floor while the process was explained (but no ice cream visible) followed by 10 minutes eating samples. Perfect!<\/p>\n

Texas Falls in Green Mountains National Forest. The green patch you see in the water at the base of the first fall is not due to vegetation but a green mineral that is common here.\"Vermont
\nShelburne Museum’s feature item is the Ticonderoga which is the only side paddle steamship of its type left in the US. To transport it the nearly two miles from Lake Champlain specially designed rails were constructed across roads, fields and a swamp.\"ShelburneIt is unusual in that it is powered by a steam engine with one huge piston that drives paddle wheels each side, but under, the ship.\"ShelburneAlthough it was a ferry the conditions on board were pretty nice.\"Shelburne
\nTo give some idea of the variety in the museum I picked just a few photos of the 88 I took there. This is the first steam locomotive built in the US.\"ShelburneThis building, one of 39, contained one of only three remaining horse drawn omnibuses in the US among other early Vermont vehicles.\"ShelburneThis weather vane collection was considered sufficiently important that the US Post Office issued a series of postage stamps featuring them in 2012.\"Shelburne
\nAnd finally – a perfect place to tour on a hot afternoon. The samples were delicious.\"Vermont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday Sep 16, 2018 Map and road video – Killington to Barre, VT via Burlington In my opinion, today’s drive was even more scenic than yesterday’s as I headed further north along Vermont scenic byway 100 and then cut back west across the Green Mountains on scenic 125. This section is more open so you … Continue reading Another wonderful drive in Vermont<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,3],"tags":[80],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}