Trip East - VBT and Family

 9 - 13 June 21 Visiting daughter Julia, and her family

Tad and his girlfriend McKinsey

Helping Nathan tear down swing set we built 15 years ago

Hike on Mt Kearsarge ~3 miles, 1100 ft.

Pond on our loop walk near Julia's house

13 - 18 June 21 VBT guided bike tour in Vermont

This was a classic VBT trip near Lake Champlain. We did day rides out of two hotels - Swift House in Middlebury and Basin Harbor Inn on Lake Champlain. There were 6 days of riding of about 25 - 30 miles through rural farm land with rolling hills. The longest ride was 45 miles.

Swift House Inn Middlebury

Typical snack stop. Road bikes were 105 Fuji carbon - plenty good

Dairy is the major industry, but is in decline

One of our big lunches after the ride

And dessert, of course

Kayaked one day after the ride

Lobster dinner the last night

Where the Morgan horse breed started

Basin Harbor

Bridge across Lake Champlain - VT to NY

Our group - pretty homogenous

20 June 21 Visited Linda and Paul Brouard, friends of Lauve's from work

Working on creek bridge repair on their lot 

Paul and Linda's flower bed

21 - 23 June Newport, RI to see the mansions

The people that built the mansions, Vanderbilt's and other titans of industry, often called them cottages and most were only used during the Summer. Their heyday was the late 1800's till the 1920's when the owners were struck by the introduction of Federal income tax, the depression and the rising cost of employing upwards of 70 people to serve and maintain the houses.

Newport annual flower show

Rock Cliff where the flower show was held

The view from our hotel, Harborside, in sun and fog

Typical grandeur - Vanderbilt's Breakers

Breakers in the fog

Dinner at Castle Hill - fish tacos and fish 'n chips

Along the cliff walk

Three headlight views from Jay Leno's Audrain vintage auto museum

The view from Doris Duke's cottage at Rough Point

Three example from the comprehensive Newport Car Museum

23 June 21 - spent an evening in Boston to see grandson, Fitch Henry

He is working on his master's in library science, but had a summer job at Landry's Bike Shop, the largest in the Northeast.

After dinner at Bricco's in the North End

Boston had a full moon that night

Dessert at Modern Pastry, famous for cannoli 

24 - 26 June 21 - Pitman, NJ to see daughter Polly and her family

Grand daughter Lydia and her baby, great grand daughter Eliana, age 16 months

Four generations!

Mike, Stasi, Lauve, Grace, Polly, Phil