Road Trip Recap Day 7 (Lake Champlain, VT)
I've been putting this post off, likely because I'm nostalgic that the trip and, especially this leg of it, ended. Summer is braking and the school supply list is printed and staring me down. I'm not ready this year. (Usually it's the opposite).
I write about these adventures to digest the journey and savor the memories with my growing people and Sean. Life is so fast forward, partly because of the season of parenting we find ourselves in and partly because of the choices we make to engage with people and participate actively in our lives.
Life is messy and full.
Days are perpetually fleeting, hair is perpetually graying. The movement of time across space has always baffled me. How is it possible that I feel present in the past, the now and the future? More curiously, how can I use that feeling to savor what is inevitably changing?
We packed up our Montreal apartment haphazardly and later than we'd planned. I woke up sleepy and excited to run across the street and grab my new favorite coffee (filtre, merci!). I journaled and sipped and looked out the window in my pajamas and acted like we didn't have to be out by 11am.
I didn't wake people up yet, this was too good.
Alas, the time had come and the four of us scurried around like mice finding places for our clothes, shoes and souvenirs. It was sad to leave our temporary home in Montreal but I knew where we were heading would be equally amazing.
We stayed until the clock ran out and piled back into Edgar (our SUV) excitedly bound for the third and final stop - Lake Champlain.
North Hero Island in Vermont was only 100 minutes from Montreal and we picked the scenic route. The border crossing was a two lane country road with farms and lake views.
Arrival at the North Hero House is an immediate and full-bellied e x h a l e.
You know when you see a place online and you hope that it is just as adorable and cozy in person? This place was even more so, which I didn't think was possible based on the photos.
I'll review it in depth in the next post (Day 8) and include all the details of what makes the North Hero House so very special + unique.
For now, Brady and I watch Sean and Meadow swim and kayak from Adirondack chairs. We chat and laugh and people watch.
The Pier Bar starts to get busy and I have to keep reminding myself that the views are real and I'm not looking at a movie. The live band starts and we order two rum punches while we wait for our table.
The long wait for our table, the live music and the rum punch start to blur together and ... before I know it, it's morning and I'm still in my dinner outfit. Oops.
