Done

New Hampshire was beautiful. I spent the first night at Portsmouth, cute little town on the mouth of the port. The next night I stayed in Concord, the capitol. In between, I went to Canterbury, a Shaker Village. The Shakers were like the Amish, but drank. Love that. They also made beautiful wooden baskets and furniture.

On the third day, I went to Vermont. There were no fire works that night. There should have been. This is the last state that I visited.

Vermont is known for maple syrup, the Green Mountain Boys in the Revolutionary war, and

Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Yes, they started here. This seems to be such a Vermont like institution. Their mission is three-pronged: good product, good community, good earth. Actually, that isn't exactly it, but you get the idea. They work to be ecologically and socially beneficial. As for me, I haven't had ice cream in some time and I love the stuff. This was like going on a pilgrimage. I had to eat the stuff. One interesting thing I learned was the Vermont was the last state for Elton John as well. He had been to the other 49 and finally visited Vermont on his last tour. They made Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road for him. It's good to have this little connection to Sir Elton, even if he doesn't know it. AND the ice cream was very good as well.

Finding the Shaker Village and Ben and Jerry's was easy because Cindy lent me her TomTom. Me love TomTom. In fact, I'm going to buy one. Who knew that I would like having someone tell me what to do all the time. Cindy recommend the voice of Jane. She likes Saturday Night Live and calls the voice "Jane, you slut." I selected Tim for a while, but his British voice was too much like the British guy who was reading to me. Ain't technology grand? I was driving alone for 4 days and had Tim and Jane and that other British guy talking to me all the time.

Now I need to decide what the next goal is. Done the 50, what's next? One thing might be the $20 bus to NYNY to see a few plays. 50 of them.