Vermont

This literally-colorful state, so known for its Autumn foliage, may be hinting at a lingering Elven touch/preservation.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Phase 1
  2. Phase 2
  3. Phase 3
  4. Childhood Trips
  5. Nice Hotels
  6. Vegan Restaurants & Shops
  7. Ancient Ruins
  8. Other Sites
  9. Miscellaneous

 

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Phase 1:

A trip or two here as a child introduced me to its colonial houses, white picket fences, old-town charm, antique farm equipment, and the many warm and earth-tone colors of its signature-bright Autumn leaves.  Few places compare to Vermont in the Fall.  Thankfully, even though I originally came here during the very start of this life during the wars-age, I was so young that I barely remember any of the accompanying tension that might have soured my perception of it.

 

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Phase 2:

I passed through here on way to and from Dartmouth years after completing my military service and a few other pursuits.  Already with three college degrees and a number of field-time equivalents under my belt, it felt great and well-timed to be trained by the world’s finest professors, industry leaders, and famous retired athletes for the kind of top-level executive management and business founding that I’d been pushing toward ever since 2007 when I became a civilian again.  Something felt familiar about it, and I almost longed to stay a while, gazing out my limo window dreamily at the passing Winter trees, remembering, at least a little bit, how magically colorful they all looked decades before and in the previous season.

 

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Phase 3:

Delicious maple syrup comes from many orchards and groves spread out across this state, and that should come as no surprise; it borders Canada, the country known for that leaf and the sweet nectar the attached trees secrete.  I’ve been researching the process, and plan to stay for weeks at a time –or even longer– whenever Vermont’s most beautiful girls invite me over to sample their best flavors right from the source.  There have got to be a lot of elves in modern-hiding living and mingling out here.  I just get that feeling.  If I’m lucky, Rayvan Wolfbaen is one of them.

 

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Childhood Trips:

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Nice Hotels

Castle Hill Resort and Spa – Cavendish VT – inspiring Inisfree’s Wylie Cove neighborhood:

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Jay Peak Resort:

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Kedron Valley Inn – South Woodstock:

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The Essex, Vermont’s Culinary Resort & Spa:

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Vegan Restaurants & Shops:

Brattleboro:

  • Superfresh!  Organic Cafe
  • Vegan A.F.
  • Yalla Vermont

Burlington:

  • Despacito
  • Pingala Cafe & Eatery Chace Mill
  • Pingala Cafe & Eatery North Ave
  • The Daily Planet
  • The Friendly Toast

Rutland:

  • Narrow Gate: Kitchen & Culture

Stockbridge:

  • Wild Fern

 

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Ancient Ruins:

  • whatever is under the cities/downtowns

more tba

 

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Other Sites:

tba

 

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Miscellaneous:

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