THE RETURN

Yes, we have returned from our little trip to Vermont. I must say the people in Vermont are the friendliest people. We had such a good time chatting with the people there, but of course there could be an ulterior motive, like "I had better be friendly to these people otherwise they won't buy anything from me". Never fear, we usually bought something and for those that didn't or wouldn't talk to us except to say "Hi" we pretty much left them "high and dry".

Overall the trip was a great, we ate some terrific food there and outside of our room was a jacuzzi hot tub just waiting for us. I must have gone in the tub a good dozen times, I lost track after six. Oh what wonders it does for the aching back and other parts too. We would love to have one of these at home but for one thing we can't afford it and for the other we have no place to put it. So we shall spend our vacations at places that do have them. This way we won't tire of them plus we won't have to clean them also.

The Black Bear Inn is a Ski Lodge like I had mentioned before but it gets a lot of summer traffic also. The place pretty much fills every night. It is on the Bolton Valley area of VT and we have about a 5 mile climb up a mountain before we reach the place and above us are the ski slopes which we didn't use for obvious reasons.

The owner has two Bassetts, Oscar and Rufus. Rufus was the more active and younger dog even joined us for dinner one night, but then we found out he does that to all the newcomers as he didn't join us the next night. There was fresh "meat" around the corner, but of course we weren't allowed to feed him.

We both decided that we would love to come back in the Fall for the colors as I'm sure it will be breathtaking.