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SE Started conversation Feb 3, 2003
I'm just suggesting that you cut across Vermont into New Hampshire then up to Quebec. You'll be glad you did.
SE (proud to be a vermonter?)
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GTBacchus Posted Feb 3, 2003
Hmmm.... it might happen that we're going through Boston, in which case ? = CT-RI-MA-NH-VT, and then into Quebec at Lake Champlain. Interstate 89, it looks like. Where are you in Vermont?
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SE Posted Feb 3, 2003
I'm in Manchester which is plop between Rutland and Bennington - Southern Vermont in other words.
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a girl called Ben Posted Feb 3, 2003
One of the things I really loved about travelling in Australia, and I guess it is the same in the US and Canada, is the complete disconnect with British place names.
Places that are a long way apart from each other in the UK, a hundred miles, or more, are quite close together in Australia, say a couple of hundred miles apart or less.
B
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FG Posted Feb 3, 2003
It's the same here. Anything less than a hundred miles away in the Western US is a short drive or the next town over.
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SE Posted Feb 3, 2003
Yes. This you realise after having to take a 24 mile drive just to get groceries. To buy clothes? Well, then you'll be looking forward to a 150+ mile drive 'round these parts.
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The Great Summer 2003 North American Rolling Meet-Up!!! Posted Feb 4, 2003
SE, we'll probably be cutting through VT on I-89, which is not quite your neck of the woods, but would you be interested in trying to coordinate something, which is to ask, shall we add you to the list? Maybe we could meet in Rutland? There are good roads from White River Junction and then up to Burlington, it appears... (My road atlas *is* 10 years old. Note to self: new road atlas.)
If we just stay on the Interstate, we'll miss Green Mountain Nat'l Forest entirely, and where's the fun in that?
GTB 
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SE Posted Feb 4, 2003
Most of Southern Vermont is Green Mountain National Forest. Just a tid bit of info to share. Burlington is a fun place as long as you don't have to live there. Perhaps I should start exploring my state more to find some interesting stuff for you guys to see (as god knows I can't think of any off the top of my head. Who the hell comes to Vermont? What- people don't have trees in their state?).
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The Great Summer 2003 North American Rolling Meet-Up!!! Posted Feb 4, 2003
We'll be en route from Boston to Montreal, which isn't a super-long drive, so killing the better part of the day in Green Mountain Country sounds fine!
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The Great Summer 2003 North American Rolling Meet-Up!!! Posted Mar 16, 2003
I am not sure what our exact route is, but we do have dates now. I *think* we will be doing that leg around and about Tuesday 29th July.
SE - are you around in Vermont? Could we steal a day from Montreal and see you? (We have built in some slack, for exactly this sort of reason).
Ben
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SE Posted Mar 17, 2003
I'm down in Southern Vermont, Manchester to be exact. July in Vermont is quite a nice time of year. Not too hot yet, everything is as green as an emerald. Plus, and I'm not sure of this, but I think that our Horse Show will be around at that time.
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a girl called Ben Posted Mar 17, 2003
Looks ok to me, but I know nothing! I will discuss it with Mr Bacchus.
eh?
B
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