Burlington, far out, man

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

  Situated on a hillside overlooking the large fresh water Lake Champlain, Burlington has 3 colleges making for a progressive, hip town full of diversity----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 3 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).  

Church Street 

And here we've stayed for 2 weeks.

Krista

Our younger daughter, Krista, is a senior this year at UVM, studying a dual major of 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.











One afternoon we went on a tasting tour to the Cabot Cheese Shop....cheese is a food group all it's own for us.

Who's that guy?

And then to a magical place called Bolton Potholes...















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























Could have camped there all week among those rock gods....but onward....

Old schoolhouse...

We got our historical/cultural fix visiting the Shelburne Museum of historical buildings----












and cupcake fix....

...and visiting Mallets Bay on Lake Champlain where Krista was a lifeguard all summer.....

Lattes with personalities

One of our highlights was a wonderful bike ride out the long causeway (an old train track turned into a bike path for many miles) onto Lake Champlain with Mark and Joann.  Mark Blair is the brother to Rose, a good friend in Taos, who was born and raised with 8 siblings on a dairy farm in the Burlington area----our families have reached and bonded across the many miles---love those Blairs!

RV Ghetto

 Despite the crowded look of this picture on the left, we actually loved our little campground next to a beach 2 miles from downtown Burlington.  We could access town by bike along the shoreline of Lake Champlain.

Loved this retro setup!

Vermont-tites?  Vermont-ers?  Vermont-onians? Vermont-ates? .....LOVE the autumn season.  
We went apple picking with Krista's friends---

Nice apples Moriah :)

Nice pumpkins :)

 
Krista and Aili (also from Taos)
---two of 7 New Mexicans attending UVM---out of about 14,000 students

Nice friends :)   w/ Dani

A big event for Tim and Krista was climbing a 4 flight fire escape on campus for great views of the campus 
(acrophobic achievements for both of them)....at the top was gargoyles and beautiful artsy messages.....






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!