We Highly Recommend Upstate New York and Vermont

We had a fantastic day driving through upstate New York. We delivered to a company in Syracuse, New York and on the way to the freeway we drove through the historic area of Syracuse and the architecture was absolutely breathtaking. It is painful to drive by these incredible buildings and not have the time or place to pull over or even get a good picture, but you don't just park a 70' plus vehicle anywhere.

Then we made our way to Burlington, Vermont. I could easily spend a month in Vermont, exploring all of the little villages and towns.  Many of the houses look like they must have when they were built, sometime around the Revolutionary War period. Its interesting to note the small square footage of the original houses. Most of them have added additions and unfortunately not all of them stayed true to the architecture of that time. The homeowners who did pay attention and meshed the later additions with the original design have an investment they can be very proud of. When you add wreaths on the doors and candles in the windows during the Christmas season you have a Thomas Kinkeade picture come alive before your eyes.

And I could go on for days about the historical downtowns of these little villages. It actually hurt to have to drive through without stopping to explore but I'm keeping a file of places we want to go back to when we're in a car or camper. I think the churches would stand out as my favorites. We saw white clapboard churches with the graveyards located next to them, brick and stone elegantly built Episcopal, Catholic and Presbyterian churches throughout the region. The majority of these small towns have at least one large, magnificent stone structure as their courthouse and government building and usually stands at the center of the downtown area.

I loved the Northeast and we were in every state except Maine and Delaware but I think I would really like to see it in the spring or fall. Temperatures got down to 7 degrees in Boston, Massachusetts and that is just too cold for me. Shannon and I unloaded 10 pallets of floor tiles in Burlington, VT while it was snowing and the temp was in the teens and by the time we were done we couldn't feel our fingers or toes. But, you know, even in those conditions I realized I was having so much fun climbing in and out of the back of the trailer, hooking the towropes onto the pallets so Shannon could pull them to the back of the trailer so he could forklift them into their warehouse, wearing my orange vest and stopping traffic so Shannon could maneuver the truck and trailer into and out of this itty bitty tiny weeny little warehouse area and just being with my best friend. There have been several times when I've wondered what alien inhabited my body and made me make the life changes I have made over the past few months but when all is said and done, at the end of every exhausting and sometimes frustrating day, I am a much happier person living this nomadic life at this time. I don't see myself taking this on as my long-term, decades long profession, but for now, it is exactly what I should be doing.