Sightseeing and Shopping!

June 22 – Another busy afternoon!  Actually we were both up earlier than normal but didn’t get motivated too early.  We left the RV about 11:30 and Bill had mapped out for us the best order to visit places that were on our list. 

Colchester LH

We headed a bit south in Shelburne to get some photos at the Shelburne Museum since it’s closed.  They have the Colchester Reef lighthouse there.  It was moved a while back and behind it is a steamboat and there’s a Roundhouse.  The grounds are rather large and it has regular museum buildings in addition to the large

Roundhouse

exhibits outside.  At the end of the property is and old Covered Bridge.  They were smart to close it off as I’m sure some loon would try to drive thru it!

Not many people make a special stop to see the World’s Tallest File Cabinet, but Bill and Kelly Chambers were on the list!  It could use a coat of paint but it stands near the lake area behind a factory of some kind. 

Actually it's a lot of file cabinets

Can you believe we were the only ones there??

From there we drove to our furtherest point, Ethan Allen’s Homestead.  It’s part of a park that his bike and hiking trails and encompasses quite a large area outside side of Burlington.  There was a gentleman who was preparing the house to open in a week for tours and he had to put in some Plexiglas.  The rooms are nicely furnished and I think it’s all

Ethan Allen Homestead

period stuff.  We could not go in but I did a pretty good job of getting photos through the windows.  There are community gardens all around the house property and they were looking pretty good.  I might have been tempted to gather a few things if no one was around!!!

From the homestead we came back into Burlington to go to Greenmount Cemetery where Ethan Allen is buried and has a huge memorial in place.  No one knows exactly where his site is, as studies have been

Ethan Allen Memorial

done and I guess there was no head stone that lasted.  Around the memorial are graves of other Allens and soldiers.  It was very sad to see the overall condition of that cemetery.  Only a couple of areas were “somewhat” mowed and others were hip high! 

This completed our tourist activities for the day!  We headed to the only RV place in town to get a new sewer hose and water pressure gauge.  The “store” part of the dealership was pretty sad!  Lots of empty pegs on the walls and spaces on shelves.  Bill asked for a lunch recommendation and we headed to The Pour House.  Not impressive in my book as I’m not much of a “bar” person. 

The rest of the afternoon was shopping!  I needed ink for my RV printer so we stopped at Staples and then we went to Penney’s at the mall.  There was hardly anyone in there and they were having their big summer clearance of fall and winter stuff.  In addition, there was a lot of other stuff on sale.  I called Bill and told him he might want to come check things out.  He ended up with 3 pair of shorts, I got 3 tops and 2 things for Jude for Christmas.  Some things were a low as $5. 

Time to head home and relax a while before getting dinner, posting blogs and planning for tomorrow!