USA ’24 – Day 5 – Spoke too Soon

Today, as we travelled from the Berkshires to the Green Mountains, it was a real taste of home. As we passed through places with names such as Manchester, Wallingford, Shrewsbury, and Rutland, none of them looked anything like their UK namesakes, but maybe it reminded the founders of home.

We came to New England for one thing and that was to see the trees in Fall colours and today it certainly didn’t disappoint. Everywhere we looked were hillsides covered in trees in every hue imaginable from green right through to red.

Up High

All our route over the trip has been carefully chosen to avoid all interstates and toll roads ensuring that we see the real rural America and the best of the foliage. The one exception we have made to that was today when we went along what what claimed to be the longest private toll road in America – the Mount Equinox Skyline drive.

It’s all very well driving along looking at the trees but eventually you want to stop and take some pictures. If you haven’t taken a picture have you even really been there? Mount Equinox allowed us to get up high and look both across and down onto the carpet of trees. 

We got pictures, lots of them, and I got a greater appreciation of just how amazing eyes are. Pictures just don’t do the view justice and certainly do not match what you see with the naked eye. From macro to wide angle eyes can handle it all and the colours are so much better too.

Down Low

We headed directly from there to Waterberry and the Ben and Jerry factory. In all the years that we have been planning the trip this was the one thing that I said that I definitely wanted to do. We’d talked about booking tickets before we flew out but for a variety of reasons we never did, partly because friends of ours had turned up on the day and had no problems getting in. Therefore, I was really upset when we arrived to find it heaving and booked out for the next week. I couldn’t believe it and I’m still upset about it now.