Well Laurie and I left home 1:12 AM Tuesday September 25th on our trek to Vermont and arrived at our friends home in Orwell at 11:35 AM and the Montana performed perfectly as always. They live about 1 hour from nowhere, so there was no Internet service, no dsl, no cable, no dial up no nothin'. The phone company is in the basement of some one's house (so is the local bank). The leaf peeping was poor, little to no color change. We did visit all the local tourist traps and small towns like The Morgan Horse farm, Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory and the Cabot cheese factory and towns like Middlebury, Rutland, Burlington and did a lot of driving around the countryside. It's nice to see towns that take pride in their historic architecture and have restored the buildings and homes. We also went to see the Vermont symphony preform at a restored opera house, they were very good!!! We left Orwell October 3rd and arrived at the Herkimer KOA at about 2:30 PM. This is a very nice campground and I would give 2 thumbs up.
Tomorrow we think we will stake our claim at the Herkimer diamond mine. Wish us luck.
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