Foliage this year ended up being early due to drought
conditions. We didn’t think the leaves
were quite as colorful this year. We
took a quick trip to see our new grandson.
The leaves had just started to turn so I took a couple pictures.
Our first destination was the Woodstock, VT area. We decided to stay off the highway and take backroads
Northwest to Claremont, cross over the bridge into Vermont and continue our
Journey.
It was peak around Franconia, etc. which would have been nice
to see but we didn’t want to deal with the traffic since we weren’t staying
over. It was a good call seeing the
traffic congestion on the news at a standstill in that area. The weather was a mixture of clouds and
sun. I think it was more clouds. Sun hitting the colors on the trees make them
really pop but clouds and grey sky make colors stand out in a different way.
Many towns have old church buildings or town halls that
were nice. The frustrating thing I see
often is telephone poles and powerlines all around them. Nice buildings but the poles, transformers,
wires, etc. don’t really do it for me. I
took a couple pictures anyway. I suppose
church buildings could be a new blog post for me.
We went down several unmarked and class 4 roads. At one point we had to have been 5 miles in
the woods. 2 UTV’s approached so I
pulled my jeep off the trail. They
stopped and I asked where this trail went.
They said it went to a big mud hole but didn’t come out to a road. I was told there were more UTV’s coming and
sure enough there had to have been 15 more pass by all mudded up. Once they passed, we discussed and decided to
be safe and turn around. My though was
no winch on my jeep, no one with us to help if we got stuck, no cell service, and
a long trail walk back to anyone unless I run into the UTV’s again. If Kevin was with us in one of his jeeps it
would have been fun to continue.
From Woodstock, we would head through Barnard and did a
slow loop. We jumped on the highway heading
home as it started to get dark.
