• Matthew Juhlin
  • Matthew Juhlin

Lebanon and Burlington

A short but fine adventure by Matthew Read more
  • Trip start
    September 3, 2016
  • Enfield Shakers

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Massive stone buildings in the middle of nowhere. Its the location of the 9th Shaker community, started late 1700s. Their craftsmanship and devotion to work is impressive. 20 bedrooms, 800 built-in drawers. 3rd picture is the community religious room, about the only place men and women saw each other... and sat separately. No iconography. The 5th picture is where the women would place the clean clothes after washing. The men picked them up and put them away. Chamber pots were stored in ground level lead lined cubby holes with a vent that pulled air up the chimney.Read more

  • Real lunch

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    This Shyrl's Diner. It's haphazard and quick-and-dirty here but that's the charm.

    Up till this point I've been chilly. Bright sun is beautiful and roads are nice and warm now.

  • Hanover nh

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Nice downtown, vibrant and trendy.

    Ohhh, it's the town of Dartmouth College. I sure would like to move near here and work at DH Lebanon. That's why Keene is such an unlikely gem: it's the college students that give downtown vitality.Read more

  • covered bridge

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Just realized that VT 4 is a road I've been on many times. Rats. But I always drive by this bridge and hydro dam. Today I went through the bridge. Check! One less thing I didn't miss out on if I have a heart attack tomorrow.Read more

  • nicely done

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Pretty buildings. I figured I've been on rt 100 a bunch of times so went on 12. Been here too! Now to cut west, definitely on new road.

  • way point

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    12a was nice, runs along flat river bottom between old round hills. This road has a section of hard packed dirt. Wish Google maps had a filter for that.

  • Bicycles

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Damn, there are so many road bikes around here. And even more strapped to cars. As an example I saw one on the back of a BMW hatchback. Yep.

    Sure enough about 10 minutes after I wrote that a car came right at me trying to go around a bike on a blind corner.Read more

  • Bobcat Cafe and Brewery

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    This place is great! The bar is dark wood and mirrors, the ceiling is tin, the floor is super creaky. This homemade lager is everything Bud wishes it could be, delicious. Ordered duck, have high expectations.

    The road coming down from that last view was quite challenging. After was nice S curves. Great bike road.
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  • Hotel

    September 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    Man, Burlington has like 20 hotels (6 of them are side by side near the airport) and everything was sold out. I had to go an hour south to Rutland at this clean but run-down motel. And on my way here I passed 1 nice b+b and 2 nice motels, all of which were not on Google maps. You have to be some kind of stupid to not have your business on the Internet nowadays.Read more

  • far flung road

    September 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    This is wheelerville rd out of Rutland. The suburbs before it were very nice, solidly middle class. And all houses were unique, not like some damn Mcmansion development. The road became about as rural as you could get while still having power (the telephone poles had one single wire.)Read more

  • awesome road

    September 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Man, I love this road. It's a part of VT 4 that winds along a river with two mountains up against you. The river is very shallow now and sparkled. The air is cool and fresh. The sun is very bright and the shadows very dark.Read more

  • Drewski's Restaurant

    September 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    As you drive along these roads you go by the occasional shack on the side of the road, jammed between the road and the hillside, with the obligatory abandoned something in the weeds on the side. This restaurant maybe used to be one. The building is totally ramshackle and not located near anything - intersection, gas station, neighborhood, nothing. But according to the sign it's been here for 30 years.Read more

  • rest stop

    September 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    A little ways back is the swimmin hole at the ol quarry. There's cars everywhere. Now I'm at the Greenwich Village of VT. This town somehow got every fashion house to open a store here. It's pretentious like you can't imagine. Something like this ruins VT's image.Read more

  • Bob's Diner

    September 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    I'm not actually hungry so I shouldn't eat... but look at this place! It's the antithesis of Manchester Center. Michael Mcdonald is playing for goodness sake.

    Trip end
    September 4, 2016