New Hampshire to Vermont

Even though we were only 8 miles from the NASCAR track at Louden, NH and the campground had many race fans there, it was a quiet night.  Mostly middle aged folks, no rabble-rousers were around so it was peaceful.  We sat outside around a campfire for about an hour and then settled in for the night.

We got a fairly early start today and headed west across NH.  Here's a view from a parking area we were in for a break:

The leaves are starting to turn and it was a beautiful drive.  We drove into Vermont to find Sugarbush  Farm.  As advertised on their website, "At the end of a scenic Vermont road lies a cheese lover's paradise".   Being new to having a motor home, we didn't think about calling ahead to see if it is reachable in a big rig.  As the roads kept getting narrower and going from paved to dirt, my husband turned to me and said "Now what have you gotten us into?".  Here's a view of the road near the farm:

 

Almost, but not quite a 2-tracker.  We drove slow as did the on-coming traffic (just a few cars, thankfully no MH headed the opposite way) so that one or the other of us could pull over and let the other one by.  

Sugarbush is a 550 acre hillside farm in central Vermont a few miles off of US 4 near Woodstock.  They make cheese, maple syrup, jams, jellies and lots of other great stuff.  They have a cheese and syrup tasting room right where they are busy packing up goodies to ship.  I tried their mild cheddar, aged extra sharp cheddar, the hickory and maple smoked cheddar and the aged cheddar with horseradish.  My two favorites were the aged extra sharp and the one with horseradish.  We bought some cheese, raspberry jam and 2 home made dog biscuits.  Jesse and Jackie were pleased.  Here's one of the barns at Sugarbush:

We left the farm to head back to US 4.  Because we were headed west, the GPS takes us a different way than when we came in (gotta love the GPS logic).  We get a stone's throw from US 4 and voila! - we have to cross the river through a covered bridge with only 10' clearance.

Now, my memory isn't always the best and I can't immediately recall if we can clear it, but it looks like we can't so we err on the side of safety and turn right instead of going through the bridge.  Of course, the GPS doesn't know that we are travelling in a 36' MH, so it tries to take us on roads that are narrower than we drove to Sugarbush and voila! - we get lost.  Yes, it's that pattern again, but we haven't been lost in a few days, it's beautiful outside and we don't have far to go until our next camground, so, no problem.

OOOPS...big problem!  All of a sudden we are at a dead end road.  There is a narrow private road that also dead ends, so my captain politely requests that I get out of the MH to help direct him so that he can do an 8 point turn to get us out of this mess I got us into.  With fine driving by my captain, we get turned around.  I promptly put in a way point in the GPS that is east so that it will take us out the same way we came in.  Finally, we got back to US 4 and headed west.

Our planned stop for 2 nights is on Lake Bomoseen in VT.  Suffice it to say, that it's not at all like described in Woodall's nor on the campground's website, so we will only stay one night and get on the road again in the morning.

Cheddar cheese goes with coffee, right?  Time to pour a cup...