Burlington, far out, man

B is for Burlington... B is for Bee-u-tee-full!

Situated on a hillside overlooking the large freshwater Lake Champlain, Burlington has three colleges, making for a progressive, hip town full of diversity with some really great people-watching, needless to say.  The townsfolk are young & outdoorsy, and environmentally inclined. It's very green all over Vermont.  As a matter of fact, Vermont is simply picture-perfect "cute" everywhere you look.
One of the three colleges and the largest is the University of Vermont---or UVM----or affectionately termed "groovy-u-vee". Like I said, it's an open-minded hip town, and I personally could live here (except for the winters).  And here we stayed for two weeks.

Church Street

Krista

Our younger daughter, Krista, is a senior this year at UVM, studying a dual major in Global Studies and Psychology with a minor in Spanish.  We'll be back next May 2015 for her graduation; needless to say, we're very proud of her huge accomplishments in the world of academia.  Holding down a full class load with a part-time job assisting in research and volunteering at the hospital... yep, we got bragging rights on her.

And then to a magical place called Bolton Potholes.

One afternoon we went on a tasting tour to Cabot Cheese Shop. Cheese is a food group for us, but who's that guy?

Bolton was a series of circular pools carved into the rocks and upriver was a sacred-sculpture garden of stacked flat rocks dotting the riverbed--- hundreds of them; it was really, truly far-out :) 

Could have camped there all week among those rock gods

Peety-pie

Historic Shelburne Museum schoolhouse

Cupcake fix

A stop at Mallets Bay on Lake Champlain where Krista was a lifeguard all summer.

Lattes with personalities

RV Ghetto

 Despite the crowded campground, we actually loved it.  It was next to a beach two miles from downtown Burlington.  We could access town by bike along the shoreline of Lake Champlain. Are they Vermont-ites or  Vermont-ers or Vermont-onians or Vermont-ates? LOVE the autumn season.  

Nice apples Moriah :)

Nice pumpkins :)  
Krista & Aili (also from Taos) are two of seven New Mexicans out of 14K students at UVM

Nice friends :)   w/ Dani

A big event for Tim and Krista was climbing a four-flight fire escape on campus for great views of the campus (acrophobic achievements for both of them), with gargoyles and beautiful artsy messages up top.






We loved our two weeks here with Krista and can't wait to return again in May '15 for graduation. Off today to Bar Harbor, Maine!